elementary 2.5 was released days ago and the latest elementary theme brings the so awaited dark panel variant. eGTK 2.0 feels a lot more snappier and speedy too.
So what’s new in elementary 2.0?
Update: As Andrew from the WebUpd8 blog have pointed out there’s a small typo error in version numbering. Actually it’s elementary 2.0 GTK theme and elementary 2.5 icon theme respectively.
eGTK 2.0 theme brings in the much awaited dark panel variant. And it looks nice. How to enable dark panel in Ubuntu, steps required are described below elementary 2.0 installation instruction.
Webkit based Midori browser and Gedit also gets some neat touches and they look a lot more integrated with the overall theme. eGTK 2.0 gets new progress bar and a much more refined Nautilus-Elementary as well.
How to Install elementary 2.0 GTK Theme in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat?
The latest elementary 2.0 theme is available in elementaryart PPA already. Do the following in Terminal to install eGTK in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementaryart/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install elementary-theme
Done.
elementary 2.5 icon theme is not available in the PPA yet, but you can manually download an install it instead. Download Elementary 2.5 icon theme from HERE
Wanna Enable Dark Panels in Elementary GTK Theme?
After installing, you might have already noticed that, there is no separate dark panel elementary theme. Do the following to enable dark panel in eGTK 2.0 theme.
Open elementary theme gtkrc file. For that, simply type the following in Terminal. I am using Gedit here for the sake of simplicity.
sudo gedit /usr/share/themes/elementary/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
Now, scroll down to the bottom part and change include “Apps/panel.rc” to include “Apps/panel-dark.rc (line 670 to me).
Thats it, save, exit it, and after: killall gnome-panel
If you have installed Elementary 2.0 by manually downloading it without using PPA, you will find specific gtkrc file under /home/$USER/.themes directory.
