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:

Light Themes Evolved - Ambiance and Radiance - include improvements like an uniform dark toolbar and titlebar, elementary applications tweaks, better scrollbars for applications that don't support overlay scrollbars and lots more. The themes were ported to GTK3 a while back, but they didn't include my favourite "fix": a dark sidebar for Nautilus (Ambiance). This fix is, however, finally available in the latest version.

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Remember Borderless Elementary? It was quite a success and I'm not sure if that's where the Ubuntu devs got the idea from, but an update today in Ubuntu 11.04 removes the borders for the Ubuntu "Light" themes: Ambiance and Radiance, writes Neil Patel on his blog.

The Ubuntu Light Themes - version 0.1.8 was released today (with a bit of a delay - these fixes were announced  a week ago on the Canonical Design blog)  and while it doesn't bring major changes, it improves the menu slowness (it seems the fix only improves the situation but does not completely solves it - see the comments on this post) and fixes bad contrast between text and background.

The new Ubuntu 10.10 default wallpaper came in an update today and looks... well, take a look for yourself:

The community wallpapers were also updated in Ubuntu Maverick and they now include the wallpapers from the community contest:

I'm back from the holiday so it's time to get back to work. But firstly, a big thanks to everybody reading WebUpd8 and sorry for the almost 2 weeks break.

There's a lot of catching up to do, and I'll start with the updated Light Themes package which landed in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat while I was away. To make it easy to install for everybody still using Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, we've uploaded the Ubuntu Maverick version to the WebUpd8 Light Themes PPA. Besides the Light Themes, the PPA also has the latest Murrine Engine from 10.10 and the updated Ubuntu Mono icons.

In the Light Themes testing PPA (which finally includes the latest Murrine Engine so the PPA is now usable by anyone) some updates today brought a new icon pack called "Humanities" derived from the Humanity icon theme and comes in two versions: Humanities-Dark-Orange (for a dark panel) and Humanities-Dark-Orange-Light (for a light panel).

There is currently a lot of work going on to improve the Ubuntu light themes: Ambiance and Radiance. Unfortunately all these changes are not even available in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat.

But if you want to install the Ubuntu latest light themes, I've created a PPA with packages for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Read on!