Gnome 3 is the latest version (released in last month) of Gnome Desktop, with totally different (from the previous versions) User Interface and components. Gnome 3.0 has been developed from scratch and claims to be ‘The Next Generation Desktop’. The main goal of Gnome 3 is to allow users to focus on the task with less interruption or distraction, in an elegant environment (look, feel and apps). This post is written for users who are looking for some cool and beautiful themes for the Gnome 3 desktop. You can also install Gnome shell 3 on Ubuntu 11.04 via PPA although it breaks the Unity and performance is very poor; in next release of Ubuntu i.e Ubuntu 11.10 (code named as Oneric Ocelot), it may be installed along with Unity.
Due to arrival of Gnome shell (although Gnome 3.0/Gnome shell is compatible with the previous versions) the applets, Widgets, Gadgets and Dock (Windows List, Maximize or Minimize Buttons etc..) are no longer available but, in fact a lot of other useful features are available such as Dash (some sort of launcher container which allows easier access to frequently used programs and currently running applications), new style of Panel,system status area, Window Picker, Search (System or Internet resources e.g Wikipedia ) etc; so a number of Gnome 2 features seems absolute in Gnome 3.0.
Due to lot of innovative features, Gnome 3.0 appears to be the desktop of Future (at least for Linux based operating system such as Ubuntu; Fedora 15 and OpenSuse has already released with Gnome 3 Desktop). Here is my favorite collection of top 10 Gnome 3 themes (elegant) and I hope you will like it!
10 Best Gnome 3.0 Themes
#1 : MinimaZero Theme
#2 : London Smoke Theme
#3 : Dark Glass
#4 : Atolm Theme
#5 : Orta Theme
#6 : DrakFire Caffe Theme
#7 : Ubuntu Ambiance Theme
Download Ubuntu Ambiance Theme
#8 : KiK Theme
#9 : Adwaita White
#10 : GnomeShell 0.1 Theme
Update 1 : One great theme added!
Other Great Themes that you must try :
Zukitwo
Hey, great article, love those themes, and thanks for featuring mine!
vow! ..welcome, Your theme is simply awesome..:)
vow! ..welcome, Your theme is simply awesome..:)
vow! ..welcome, Your theme is simply awesome..:)
Amazing themes :). Loved them all. Thank you !
Welcome!
These themes look great but how am I supposed to install them in gnome3 when I can find the appearance settings etc.. Have they gone or am I being thick? :-s
@6af748bc07b60f1e93bb6e9b61c1205f:disqus Just use gnome-tweak-tool .. if you want to install it on Ubuntu type :
sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool
or
yum install gnome-tweak-tool, on fedora
Anybody know the wallpaper in #10?
great, thanks for sharing…
I have this weird bug where on themes with a transparent top bar you can see the old gnome 2.x menus trough it.
This problem applies to ALL transparent themes.
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/192/screenshotat20111016083.png/
Other than that, all skins are awesome, and the article is also great.
How do I install them on Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity?
Thanks for share buddy….it’s worth to try
zukito is te best
how to install the packages/themes to Ubuntu 11.10 ))??
First page with really good looking themes, thx alot!