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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="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aOzb7jpe-Zs/UI6UveDInDI/AAAAAAAALWA/08b7m4K_5_s/s1600/faience.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="faience icon theme" border="0" height="160" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aOzb7jpe-Zs/UI6UveDInDI/AAAAAAAALWA/08b7m4K_5_s/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="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VQ6BVjLrp5s/UI6U0aG6bpI/AAAAAAAALWI/b7e29ZrcUjM/s1600/faience-gnome-shell.png" imageanchor="1"><img alt="faience gnome shell theme" border="0" height="180" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VQ6BVjLrp5s/UI6U0aG6bpI/AAAAAAAALWI/b7e29ZrcUjM/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="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lOV1Vjx2sJc/UI6U1Ta8YII/AAAAAAAALWQ/m-i4AoOhZwI/s1600/faience-gnome-shell_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lOV1Vjx2sJc/UI6U1Ta8YII/AAAAAAAALWQ/m-i4AoOhZwI/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="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PvmlcCM6AQw/UI6U7ioG5yI/AAAAAAAALWY/Sj6C3sbuB10/s1600/faience-gtk-theme.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="faience gtk theme" border="0" height="180" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PvmlcCM6AQw/UI6U7ioG5yI/AAAAAAAALWY/Sj6C3sbuB10/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="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bHpE13CNT54/UI6U8pKk-RI/AAAAAAAALWc/LwZ9_kyABjE/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="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bHpE13CNT54/UI6U8pKk-RI/AAAAAAAALWc/LwZ9_kyABjE/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="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9t_rTfWWWds/UI7KUQR_uGI/AAAAAAAALZ8/9rE4tXhGs4E/s1600/faience-dark.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="faience gtk theme dark" border="0" height="244" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9t_rTfWWWds/UI7KUQR_uGI/AAAAAAAALZ8/9rE4tXhGs4E/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="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bczDLaYQIHY/UI6VOS0X5LI/AAAAAAAALWo/-c_nzh-0tyA/s1600/faenza.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bczDLaYQIHY/UI6VOS0X5LI/AAAAAAAALWo/-c_nzh-0tyA/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

The Faience pack has been updated today with new and improved icons for the icon theme, GNOME Shell 3.6 support for the GS theme and there&...

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-blKBEqdMGIs/UEeZWd-amXI/AAAAAAAAJ98/-YQSa4ZcKAc/s1600/gtk-theme-prefs.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="gtk theme preferences" border="0" height="164" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-blKBEqdMGIs/UEeZWd-amXI/AAAAAAAAJ98/-YQSa4ZcKAc/s320/gtk-theme-prefs.png" title="gtk theme preferences" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://satya164.deviantart.com/">Satya</a>, who's behind some beautiful GTK and GNOME Shell themes, has created a cool new tool that lets you customize GTK theme colors.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Right now, `GTK Theme Preferences` (that's the name of the tool) works with any GTK2 and GTK3 theme and lets you customize the following:</b></div><a name='more'></a><ul><li>selected background color</li><li>Xfce panel, Gnome panel and Unity panel: background and text color</li><li>menu background and font color</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Even though this is a brand new tool, it seems that GTK Theme Preferences might be <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/R/ThemeEditor">included</a> by default in the upcoming Xubuntu 13.04.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">A similar feature was available in GNOME 2 by default, but unfortunately it wasn't included in GNOME 3 and since then, GNOME (this includes Unity) users who like to customize the GTK theme colors had to do it manually, by changing configuration files. Well, that's not the case anymore thanks to GTK Theme Preferences. The application comes with a limited set of features for now as you can see (which are still very useful), but hopefully it will gain even more customization options in the future.</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-v5RnXJXKKCk/UEeZaH1M9mI/AAAAAAAAJ-E/vP0dXdUNRII/s1600/gtk-theme-preferences.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="gtk theme preferences" border="0" height="180" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-v5RnXJXKKCk/UEeZaH1M9mI/AAAAAAAAJ-E/vP0dXdUNRII/s320/gtk-theme-preferences.png" title="gtk theme preferences" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here's an example: in the screenshot above you can see <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/08/greybird-default-xubuntu-theme-gets.html">Greybird</a> GTK theme which by default uses blue for the selected background color and comes with a light panel and light menus. Using GTK Theme Preferences, I've tweaked it to use a dark panel, a purple selected background color and dark menus.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install GTK Theme Preferences</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://github.com/satya164/gtk-theme-config">GTK Theme Preferences</a> is available in the Shimmer Project PPA for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin and 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. Add the PPA and install it using the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shimmerproject/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install gtk-theme-config</code></pre><br /><b>Arch Linux</b> users can install GTK Theme Preferences via <a href="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=62561">AUR</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Once installed, launch GTK Theme Preferences from Dash / the menu, make any changes you want, <b>make sure the "Custom widgets" toggle switch is turned on</b> (or else the changes won't be used by your GTK theme!) and click Apply. </div><br /><b>Then, you'll have to log out and log back in to see the changes.</b> Unity users can also run "setsid unity" in a terminal instead of logging out. <br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to download the source, you want to report a bug or want to help implement translations support, visit GTK Theme Preferences on <a href="https://github.com/satya164/gtk-theme-config">GitHub</a>.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Satya for the tip! </i></div>

Customize GTK3 / GTK2 Theme Colors Using `GTK Theme Preferences`

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