Ambiance & Radiance Colors,
a theme pack that provides Ambiance and Radiance in various colors, was
updated today with 3 new colors: Aqua, Teal and Manila, to match the
latest Humanity Colors icons.
The new release also includes full Nemo / Cinnamon support (with a Cinnamon theme) and other changes.
With this update,
the theme pack is now available in 12 color variations (the theme
already included the following colors: blue, brown, graphite, green,
orange - different from the default orange -, pink, purple, red and
yellow), all available as both light (Radiance) and dark (Ambiance).
The theme pack supports Unity,
MATE, Xfce and Cinnamon. Since the default/stock Ambiance and Radiance
don't support client side window decorations, the Ambiance and Radiance
Colors pack doesn't support it either, so GNOME Shell is currently not
properly supported.
Besides the 3 new colors, the latest Ambiance & Radiance Colors 14.04.5 includes other changes such as:
- improved window buttons color (it's now brighter / less dull) - white window buttons are also still available if you don't want to use colored window buttons (set the theme to Ambiance-COLOR-pro or Radiance-COLOR-pro to get white window buttons);
- full support for Nemo file manager and the Cinnamon desktop (including a Cinnamon theme);
- new menubar gradient for GTK3 apps. No longer a upside down one like it is in the stock Ambiance / Radiance themes;
- Nautilus and Nemo now use a dark sidebar;
- Xfce Virtual Desktop Pager is now more visible and uses prelight color for selected desktop (as opposed to grey);
- fixes for some GTK2-based terminal apps - they now use a nice black/grey background;
- fixes for dark MintMenu on MATE;
- 2 new (optional) window border themes are available for MATE and Xfce with classic big window borders for easier resizing: 4px wide as apposed to 1px, as it was before. This is for use on MATE and Xfce without Compiz if you have issues with the window border resize area being too small (an issue that was introduced with all new "borderless" themes such as Ambiance and Radiance in Ubuntu 14.04);
- other under-the-hood fixes and enhancements.
Note that in my test, MintMenu under MATE still has an issue: the favorites text is blurry.
It's also important to mention
that the Nautilus toolbar doesn't look like the original
Ambiance/Radiance theme because of a limitation in its code (probably
some Nautilus / Unity patch or something like that) - the Nautilus
toolbar code is identical in both the stock Ambiance/Radiance themes and
in Ambiance & Radiance Colors (so in theory, they should look the
same, but that's not the case as you can see below):
Here are a few more screenshots with some of the changes mentioned above:
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| Ambiance Aqua - Cinnamon |
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| Ambiance Aqua - MATE |
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| Ambiance Teal Xfce |
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| Ambiance Teal - Unity |
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| Radiance Manila - Unity |
As a reminder, for matching icons, see the Humanity Colors icon theme pack.
Install Ambiance & Radiance colors in Ubuntu 14.04 or Linux Mint 17
Ambiance and Radiance Colors can be
installed in Ubuntu 14.04 or Linux Mint 17 (and derivatives: Xubuntu
14.04, etc.) by using the RAVEfinity PPA. Add the PPA and install the
themes using the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ravefinity-project/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ambiance-colors radiance-colors
For other Linux distributions or if you don't want to add the PPA, you can get the themes from HERE.
To change the theme in Unity, you can use a tool such as Ubuntu Tweak or Unity Tweak Tool
