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Desert Original

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): https://github.com/paullinuxthemer/Desert

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Description:

Desert

Made by Paulxfce

This is the first theme in which I tried not to use white and grey, but a muted yellowish-dark-brown color palet. Designed to be light, crisp, and simple, this theme is thoroughly built and tested to provide a nice desktop environment.

The theme only provides a GTK3-theme, with dark-support, and a matching gnome-shell. It is built for the Gnome-DE.

NEW:
1.2 update to correct padding in nautilus pathbar
1.1 update gives two new accent-colors (orange and purple), matching gnome-shells and a solid (non-transparent) version of each variant. So now there are 12 themes to choose from.

IMPORTANT:

This theme is developed for the gnome DE. It works on GTK3.22 to GTK3.29, and GTK3.32/34/36/38, NOT GTK 3.30.

How to install:

Download the theme,

>Desert
>Desert-solid
>Desert-Dark
>Desert-Dark-Solid

>Desert-Orange
>Desert-Orange-Solid
>Desert-Orange-Dark
>Desert-Orange-Dark-Solid

>Desert-Purple
>Desert-Purple-Solid
>Desert-Purple-Dark
>Desert-Purple-Dark-Solid

Just copy the extracted file to a '.themes'-folder you make in your home directory.
Then use the Tweak Tool and select the theme.
LOG OUT AND BACK IN for changes to take full effect!

The (license free) background image can be found here: https://pixy.org/6319114/

Last changelog:

Added background-image 1 month ago

Made the Desert-background available (license-free) in the download-section

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fblais
1 month ago

Great Paul, thanks! :)

tobaj
1 month ago

9 9 excellent; quite original, consistent and polished theme; nice colors palette; now I'm struggling with finding some matching icon theme..

ron-obvious
1 month ago

I'm currently using Jade-Amber (with Desert-Orange-1.1). Best I've found so far, but I'm still looking around...
Paulxfce, I can understand why you don't want to make icon themes, but perhaps you could _recommend_ one? Or two... ;-)

paulxfce
1 month ago

Hahaha, no, I do not make icon themes...

tobaj
1 month ago

But you could try! :)

tobaj
1 month ago

I mean that I'm pretty sure you could come up with some cool theme :)

paulxfce
1 month ago

I did make an iconset once, based on suru. The problem with icon-themes is that is requires a lot of work and updates, not to mention issues with every gnome-version-update. So, I sort of given up on that...

tobaj
1 month ago

That's what I meant. Apps needs constant updates and it's just impossible to keep up..

fblais
1 month ago

Moka is cool with the purple variant.

tobaj
1 month ago

Yes, the folder icons and mime types suit Desert. But not the apps.

tobaj
1 month ago

.. Moka is a nice theme but I'd rather go with Papirus. It's a very coherent theme with color palette matching Desert quite good. Folder icons and mime-types look fabulous with Deseert. Also this theme is in active development and one of the most complete (yet still coherent) out there. Still the apps icons are usually a bit too colorful though but there will be always problem with apps icons with every icon theme

fblais
1 month ago

The orange and purple icons here are great with Desert!
https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1437064/

tobaj
1 month ago

OK, I'll check those out too :) Thanks!

fblais
1 month ago

I agree to some point because I love Papirus too, but find it too flat for Desert.

tobaj
1 month ago

That's a good point. I can't wait to try Buuf Nestort: https://www.pling.com/p/1012233/ !

tobaj
1 month ago

.. yes, Buuf Nestort seems an interesting and non-flat choice of icons for Desert. If you want to try, best grab it from the source repo: https://git.disroot.org/eudaimon/buuf-nestort

paulxfce
1 month ago

Gnome shell is now included

bambou
1 month ago

9 I just switched from your Prof theme to that one and the colour scheme is amazing and really easy on the eye. Thank for your work !!

paulxfce
1 month ago

Thanks, update in a few days. New accent- colors and matching Gnome shell.

cloudy4am
1 month ago

8 color is great.

but the lists look cringe when font size scaled to 1.25.
and I wish the color of the shell theme matches the GTK3 theme.

thanks for the great theme

paulxfce
1 month ago

Scaling is not advisable with this theme. It should however work properly with 200% scaling.

cloudy4am
1 month ago

I'm using your cameo-pop_os theme as well. That one doesn't have a cringe lists problem.

paulxfce
1 month ago

Cameo is build on an entirely different code, with gradual scaling in mind. But It has some issues with 4K resolutions.

To prevent that this theme works with more fixed distances between widgets, instead of relative distances (like Cameo)

cloudy4am
1 month ago

thanks for the replies

fkorpsvart
1 month ago

9 9 excellent

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Added background-image 1 month ago

Made the Desert-background available (license-free) in the download-section

Additions 1 month ago

Add some more explanation

Major update 1 month ago

Added extra colors variants (orange and purple), and a solid version of each.
Matching gnome-shells added

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zayronXIO Jan 03 2021 10 the best

Excelent theme, very hob

evripidis Jan 02 2021 9 excellent

Fantastic theme. Please add xfce and gtk2 support in order to make it compatible with applications used every day. Or point me to a theme of yours to tinker and maybe i can add support for xfce and gtk myself. Well done!

etiennegnome Dec 10 2020 10 the best

10 the best

tomsv Dec 06 2020 9 excellent

9 excellent

frederic314 Dec 03 2020 10 the best

10 the best. Congratulations and thank you for this new version ! I've been waiting for an amber or champagne version for a long time. A suggetion concerning the dark version, I find that the lettering is too bright, "too white". I would have seen something similar to your "Alu-Night-straight" or "Cameo-ALU-Night" version, ie softer, less white, less contrasting lettering.

ruwe Dec 01 2020 10 the best

Your best for me so far. Your other themes were too grey for me and looked too much like Mac. The smooth colours are just right,

cloudy4am Dec 01 2020 10 the best

10 the best

ticoon Dec 01 2020 10 the best

10 the best, I follow your themes and the quality is increasing every time!

ron-obvious Dec 01 2020 10 the best

Upgrading my rating from 9 to 10 now that Gnome-Shell is included. Excellent work!

seanjones Dec 01 2020 9 excellent

9 excellent

ganeshedge Dec 01 2020 10 the best

10 the best

IgorIv Dec 01 2020 9 excellent

9 excellent

archman73 Nov 30 2020 10 the best

10 the best Hey, I got your email alert and tested the desert and desert dark, for me the desert dark is WOW it and the gnome shell to match perfect I test some apps like Inkscape, Thunderbird, Brave browser, gedit etc...it looks awesome, the only one that didn't changed was gimp it still creamish colour. the desert and desert solid gnome shell are the same as the desert dark I'm not sure if this is part of your plans? so far a run desert and open all my apps and it's perfect! Great work I'm in WOW still ah aha...Thank you very much for your hard work PAULXFCE

tobaj Nov 30 2020 9 excellent

9 excellent; quite original, consistent and polished theme; nice colors palette; now I'm struggling with finding some matching icon theme..

bambou Nov 26 2020 9 excellent

I just switched from your Prof theme to that one and the colour scheme is amazing and really easy on the eye. Thank for your work !!

fkorpsvart Nov 24 2020 9 excellent

9 excellent

Michedev Nov 23 2020 10 the best

10 the best

scoson Nov 22 2020 9 excellent

Very good colors, wish I could use it..

velayo_double Nov 22 2020 10 the best

10 the best

VentGrey Nov 22 2020 10 the best

Are there any plans to continue your nextwaita project? :D

dayfuaim Nov 22 2020 8 great

8 great

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