Ubuntunion

Background

Ubuntunion has been the first desktop theme developed by me. Although it has originally been developed for Ubuntu (that’s where the name comes from), it works with all Gnome2 distributions. The “successor” of this theme is ubuntunion2.

The Theme

The idea behind Ubuntunion is to view a window as a unity in which elements like title bar, menu bar and toolbar melt with the other window contents and are all framed by a colourful border. To achieve this, there are no lines that split the whole window. Instead, the windows contain gradient lines. Also the outer frame is relatively thick to hold the window together.

The theme is not very flexible. The colours cannot be changed, the windows always have a white background and orange highlights.

Besides the window frame theme (for Metacity) Ubuntunion also contains a “hand-made” theme for the window contents (GTK+) which is not fully complete.

Download

• Ubuntunion theme package tar.gz, 30,2 KiB

License

Ubuntunion is licensed under a Creative Commons license. When redistributing, please set a link to this site.

Information for Compiz users

To prevent borders of inactive windows from having an ugly transparency, you need to open the configuration editor (Press Alt+F2, enter gconf-editor and click OK) and there set the value of apps › gwd › metacity_theme_opacity to 1.