1 Icons Icons are critical to making your system look good. Here are some of the best GNOME icon sets:
- Elementary Icons hands down the best icon set for GNOME.
- nuoveXT 2.2 a neat, slightly Vista-ish icon set
- Meliae
- GNOME Colors based on Tango and GNOME default icons
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Themes
Themes change the way windows appear on your desktop. First, install some cool themes provided by the Ubuntu community:
sudo apt-get install community-themes
- Shiki-Colors a clean theme that combines light windows with dark tile bars and menus.
- Dust a very cool darkish theme
- ECSTATiCA a good dark theme
3 GDM GDM is the login manager for GNOME. It's the screen you see when you're typing in your user name and password. Using GDM, you can customize the way that screen appears.
4 Fonts Adding and changing fonts in Ubuntu is easy, and it can improve the user experience significantly. Check out this page for a guide to installing new fonts on your Ubuntu system.