The Faience Pack Gets A Beautiful New GTK3 Theme, GNOME Shell And Icon Themes Updated

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Faience pack</b> has been updated today with new and improved icons for the icon theme, <b>GNOME Shell 3.6 support for the GS theme </b>and there's also a <b>beautiful new GTK3 theme</b>.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV26pE_tkOCV15Y4DqGT1dMmnlcmfz4HbCXxPa2fQH4D793ENY85vmdvCAMXHOvbLoMtBTp5_8gL7MchTLAxMHMjqZXvgB69_6WInSOi3yeOAOCHBPHwYQL33jKKFEE4RbMJ2_ms26gXuU/s1600/faience.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="faience icon theme" border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV26pE_tkOCV15Y4DqGT1dMmnlcmfz4HbCXxPa2fQH4D793ENY85vmdvCAMXHOvbLoMtBTp5_8gL7MchTLAxMHMjqZXvgB69_6WInSOi3yeOAOCHBPHwYQL33jKKFEE4RbMJ2_ms26gXuU/s320/faience.png" title="faience icon theme" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><b>New in <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/08/faience-new-gnome-3-icon-theme-by.html">Faience icon theme</a> 0.5:</b><br /><ul><li>New design for the desktop, remote desktop, wallpaper, GDM setup, session properties, Terminal, Xterm, Twitter, Spotify and adressbook icons</li><li>Updated blue folders color</li><li>Icons for the system settings categories on Ubuntu</li></ul><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The <b>Faience GNOME Shell theme</b> has been updated as well, and it now supports GNOME Shell 3.6 (for GNOME Shell 3.4, use the old theme version as this one won't work!):</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOCbpHAcLy4qOy61DVIetfs9yr6l6G2kG2XvT9sjXKZa6-SRWkdg3xMItlfsZzBHRTfbCVsIC-a0aKyL4omrHfmJ4QEfixmIc5GJm30h_N0V5jpGTIHHMx1t5ClEWO1k9-gZ5sc4Uqo-xq/s1600/faience-gnome-shell.png" imageanchor="1"><img alt="faience gnome shell theme" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOCbpHAcLy4qOy61DVIetfs9yr6l6G2kG2XvT9sjXKZa6-SRWkdg3xMItlfsZzBHRTfbCVsIC-a0aKyL4omrHfmJ4QEfixmIc5GJm30h_N0V5jpGTIHHMx1t5ClEWO1k9-gZ5sc4Uqo-xq/s320/faience-gnome-shell.png" title="faience gnome shell theme" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGzPLhMt4FJTgwS4i-WU2PlFcwUqIqtOMpeHj-lOwSn9M7_fYcTxKJJq-K9D4TmbpGEyNPVE3Dbb0TUY7CmK9BZTwSq5LneLO4U5l6ZNd709RR90ys9DfbVH9COaHpDIOFPm4Eek5hA4iO/s1600/faience-gnome-shell_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGzPLhMt4FJTgwS4i-WU2PlFcwUqIqtOMpeHj-lOwSn9M7_fYcTxKJJq-K9D4TmbpGEyNPVE3Dbb0TUY7CmK9BZTwSq5LneLO4U5l6ZNd709RR90ys9DfbVH9COaHpDIOFPm4Eek5hA4iO/s320/faience-gnome-shell_2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The GTK3 / Metacity theme will probably remind you of the beautiful Equinox GTK2 themes, designed by the same Tiheum, which were very popular in the GTK2 era, but weren't updated for GTK3. Here's the new <b>Faience GTK theme</b> which includes GTK3 (GTK 3.6), GTK2 and Metacity themes:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl0nedPsTBUz7I50kVGVWfI3eGSC7-Jsv5PAHT4L9JTlzF9I__7-DFlToKjnOAWafpFlHv_XYuFHsnmtqlT7F92eB2MJsVmEOcupbNxAgA1QthTTs-LJFLF2wXG6D-JiM46fEfrbvPrBjg/s1600/faience-gtk-theme.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="faience gtk theme" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl0nedPsTBUz7I50kVGVWfI3eGSC7-Jsv5PAHT4L9JTlzF9I__7-DFlToKjnOAWafpFlHv_XYuFHsnmtqlT7F92eB2MJsVmEOcupbNxAgA1QthTTs-LJFLF2wXG6D-JiM46fEfrbvPrBjg/s320/faience-gtk-theme.png" title="faience gtk theme" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilV47yl6bEm5snShojIWSPmPB-dsV4agaz82Pyobib5UIv0CrP1FTt61O4T_UaO4FuyMxymmMnsEMqqwhTW5F2rtIklN1jexYgBBCz2-5y3aI8F8053Bz0VVj6Hfv2Ula5NN37cR1e2knF/s1600/faience-gtk-theme_twf.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="faience gtk theme" border="0" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilV47yl6bEm5snShojIWSPmPB-dsV4agaz82Pyobib5UIv0CrP1FTt61O4T_UaO4FuyMxymmMnsEMqqwhTW5F2rtIklN1jexYgBBCz2-5y3aI8F8053Bz0VVj6Hfv2Ula5NN37cR1e2knF/s320/faience-gtk-theme_twf.png" title="faience gtk theme" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There's also a <b>dark Faience GTK theme</b>, used by the applications that specifically request a dark theme (like EOG for instance), which can be forced by using GNOME Tweak Tool (<i>Theme > Enable dark theme for all applications</i>), but the dark window titlebar is only available for GNOME Shell so in other desktop environments, you'll get a dark theme with a light titlebar.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here's how the dark Faience GTK theme looks like in GNOME Shell:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIZo_kHPA1xGDpqZPN7aiAgyJ3VgM09VSeFXv2Zm8-4kSOlXETHUc_8SyUwXDb30wejpEKltlb5B9gcK1HpKJ9PTzld0YQW7Ofanfw22ZOaG2bGuDHMNEVVBuX0fdVeJ_MgHAWBgmPpuR7/s1600/faience-dark.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="faience gtk theme dark" border="0" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIZo_kHPA1xGDpqZPN7aiAgyJ3VgM09VSeFXv2Zm8-4kSOlXETHUc_8SyUwXDb30wejpEKltlb5B9gcK1HpKJ9PTzld0YQW7Ofanfw22ZOaG2bGuDHMNEVVBuX0fdVeJ_MgHAWBgmPpuR7/s320/faience-dark.png" title="faience gtk theme dark" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJiRU2aftQ3p4g7Fr7fbWI10v3YgKcfg8E5hk2Qfbl2YEE1gJiS_JDVv12o75h0Vd-DteeoHpxjJp2fIZO5I0-KrVSkTL_JF8hH62FEPiY2fjbzfH3ULLWfC8nHOjb6-EyaIhV9eUQCAUB/s1600/faenza.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJiRU2aftQ3p4g7Fr7fbWI10v3YgKcfg8E5hk2Qfbl2YEE1gJiS_JDVv12o75h0Vd-DteeoHpxjJp2fIZO5I0-KrVSkTL_JF8hH62FEPiY2fjbzfH3ULLWfC8nHOjb6-EyaIhV9eUQCAUB/s320/faenza.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>The Faenza icon theme has been updated as well and includes:</b><br /><ul><li>New app icons: UbuntuOne Music, Ubuntu Online Accounts</li><li>New design for Twitter, Spotify and Addressbook icons</li><li>Icons for the system settings categories on Ubuntu</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Install Faience pack and Faenza icon theme in Ubuntu</h2><br /><b>To add the official Faience / Faenza PPA in Ubuntu, use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox<br />sudo apt-get update</code></pre><br />Then, to install the Faience icon theme, use the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install faience-icon-theme</code></pre><br />To install Faience GTK3 and GNOME Shell themes, use (for GNOME 3.6 only!):<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install faience-theme</code></pre><br />And finally, to install the Faenza icon theme:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install faenza-icon-theme</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To change the icon theme, GTK theme or GNOME Shell theme, install an application like <a href="https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/gnome-tweak-tool/">GNOME Tweak Tool</a> (for the GNOME Shell theme you'll also need the <a href="https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/19/user-themes/">User Themes</a> extension).</div><br /><b>For other Linux distributions, you'll find download links below:</b><br /><ul><li><a href="http://tiheum.deviantart.com/art/Faience-icon-theme-255099649">Faience icon theme</a></li><li><a href="http://tiheum.deviantart.com/art/GTK3-Gnome-Shell-Faience-255097456">Faience GNOME Shell and GTK3 themes</a></li><li><a href="http://tiheum.deviantart.com/art/Faenza-Icons-173323228">Faenza icon theme</a></li></ul>

The Faience Pack Gets A Beautiful New GTK3 Theme, GNOME Shell And Icon Themes Updated

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