The designer is still working on it and it's moving fast

Dec 18, 2014 15:10 GMT  ·  By

A new GTK+ theme called Paper is being designed right now and it looks like it's already a winner, even if it hasn't been finished.

There are hundreds of active themes right now for Linux systems, and to be fair, only a small number of them are actually good enough to be considered. Most of them are too tacky or they belong in an era when that sort of design was acceptable. We're not including here the themes provided by default in famous operating systems like Linux Mint, Ubuntu, or Fedora.

In 2014 we saw some pretty interesting theme designs and it looks like the main trend is simplicity and clarity. The Paper theme by Sam Hewitt is already making quite an impression in the community, even if it's not quite ready. It's designed primarily for GNOME Shell, but it also runs in Unity although not with the same effect.

"Paper is a modern GTK3 desktop theme suite. Its design is mostly flat with a minimal use of shadows for depth. Paper has been developed primarily for GNOME and other GTK3 desktops, legacy desktops will not have the same experience," reads the official website.

If you have an Ubuntu-based system, you can add the PPA for the daily build and try it from there. Just enter these commands in terminal:

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:snwh/pulp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install paper-gtk-theme

Paper theme (5 Images)

Paper in Unity
Paper in GNOMEGTK inspector
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