A new GTK+ theme and icons for the upcoming Linux Mint 18 "Sarah" became available few days ago. Earlier, developers had made the announcement that Linux Mint 18 will feature a new look and feel. I was able to get the new appearance in action in my test system. Here are a few screenshots for those who are interested in seeing how Mint 18 will look.
Linux Mint's Github now contains a new GTK+ theme for the upcoming release. The theme is called "Mint-Y". It is based on the popular Arc theme created by . It looks exactly the same, just slightly recolored to match the green style of the distro.Here is the appearance provided by the Arc theme in MATE 1.12:
The following screenshot shows Mint-Y in action:
Like the Arc theme, Mint-Y also includes three color variants. The default one is in the screenshot above. There are "darker" and "dark" options available, as shown below:
As for icons, the new icon set is based on the flat icons "Moka". It is also called "Mint-Y".
Moka is a modern icon set which follows the popular flat appearance trend. As of this writing, Mint-Y icons is a mix of Moka and the good old Mint-X icon set which is familiar to every Linux Mint user. While the apps menu comes with Moka icons for categories and apps, folders are still from Mint-X:
How to get Mint-Y themes in your OS
If you would like to test the Mint-Y suite in your Linux right now, here is what you can do:
Arch Linux users can install it using these packages in AUR:
Other users can just download the following archives:
- Mint-Y GTK theme. Extract the archive content to /home/username/.themes
- Mint-Y icons. Extract the archive content to /home/username/.icons
What do you think about these themes and icons? Will you be happy to see them in Linux Mint 18?
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Mint always looked good but it was a little coarse, with overly thick borders so it always looked better in a screenshot than on the desktop. Hopefully Mint-Y will be a bit more refined.
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i made some packages:
mint-y-gtk-theme: https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3APival81&package=mint-y-gtk-theme
mint-y-icon-theme: https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3APival81&package=mint-y-icon-theme
Great. Thanks for sharing!