--- author: email: mail@petermolnar.net image: https://petermolnar.net/favicon.jpg name: Peter Molnar url: https://petermolnar.net copies: - http://web.archive.org/web/20111116134449/http://petermolnar.eu:80/sysadmin-blog/a-usable-theme-for-ubuntu-desktop-shiki/ lang: en published: '2010-03-13T12:52:08+00:00' summary: 'I never liked Ubuntu''s Humanity theme, New Wave theme in 9.10 crashes some applications, like F-Spot, and both are brown. Now Lucid is about to make purple (sic!) it''s default colour, so that''s not for me as well. The solution: shiki.' tags: - linux desktop title: 'A usable theme for Ubuntu Desktop: Shiki' --- I never liked Ubuntu's Humanity theme, New Wave theme in 9.10 crashes some applications, like F-Spot, and both are brown. Now Lucid is about to make purple (sic!) it's default colour, so that's not for me as well. When I used to work with Windows XP, I used a theme named NeogenX[^1], from a deviantart publisher, dobee[^2], and I simply loved it. So I wanted to find something similar to that for Ubuntu. I've searched through deviantart's customisation part[^3] for this, and I've found nothing. Fortunately, I came across with Ubuntu Tweak[^4], some kind of system management software for Ubuntu. It has a third party repository list from ppa, and there was a theme repository, named gnome-colors[^5]. Inside of it, there's a pack, shiki-colors[^6]. This is exactly what I was looking for. [^1]: [^2]: [^3]: [^4]: [^5]: [^6]: