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ambiance ubuntu 12.10 quantal

The Ubuntu Light Themes branch has been updated a few minutes ago (the changes aren't in the official Quantal repositories for now), bringing some interesting changes to the Ambiance and Radiance themes for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal:
  • new tabs style including a rounded active tab and more subtle inactive tabs
  • the buttons are a bit bigger and more rounded
  • changes for the latest Nautilus 3.5.x which looks great, though oddly, the toolbar doesn't uses a dark style anymore. The toolbar theming used for Nautilus is used by other GNOME applications too, like GNOME Documents, GNOME Contacts or Epiphany (these applications aren't installed by default)
  • GNOME panel fixes (classic GNOME session)
  • other changes

Screenshots:
ambiance ubuntu 12.10 quantal
Updated theming for Nautilus 3.5.x

ambiance ubuntu 12.10 quantal
New buttons / tabs style

GNOME apps Epiphany and GNOME Documents (not installed by default) follow the same style as Nautilus

Radiance theme


The updated Ambiance and Radiance themes (along with an updated Unico GTK3 engine, required for the latest Ambiance and Radiance) aren't yet available in the official Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal repositories, but will probably land soon. Until the final Ubuntu 12.10 release, Ambiance and Radiance are likely to get many other updates so this is not the final design!

Update: the new Light Themes version has just been uploaded to the Ubuntu 12.10 repositories so the new theme design should be available to all Quantal users in a few minutes / hours.

What do you think?