Personal picks on GNOME themes

Saber's GNOME theme setup

I've been distro-hopping for some time for some time now and in that time, I have been using distributions that have the GNOME de built-in. GNOME is famous for its extensibility, having gnome extensions, easy theming support and a design that been crafted to be wonderfully simplistic. 

Now I assume that if you found this guide, you may already know all about this nonsense on GNOME, so lets get right into my setup. 

GTK theme

Now this isn't an easy pick since there are many excellent themes out there. However a majority of the time, I have been using one theme that I have found the be excellently designed as well as aesthetically pleasing, and that theme is Flat-plat-blue. This is a fork of the Flat-plat theme (now known as materia) which boasts material design concepts commonly found in Android smartphones today. 

Its main difference is that it has been modified to have blue colors which may or may not suit your tastes, but should work with many setups. 

Icon theme

Again, this wasn't an easy choice. Icons + themes although usually independently packaged, can have a noticable influence of the look of your desktop environment. To match the GTK theme, I have selected the paper icon theme. Paper uses flat styled icons that is reminiscent of material design, and ties perfectly with the theme. 

Shell theme

Same as GTK theme, Flat-plat-blue initially had transparent top  bar that remained consistent regardless of the window state, but as of GNOME 3.26, it has been solid grey coloured. Not great but not bad either. 

Close picks

Here are the other themes I've tried and found to work quite well
The order to read is GTK theme, Icon theme, Shell theme

Arc-darker, Numix icon circle, Arc-dark
United-gnome, papirus icons, United-gnome

That's all for this post, thanks for reading :) 

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