If you’re hunting out a decent Mac theme for your Ubuntu desktop you need look no further than Zukimac — an OS X-inspired GTK3 theme that is uncanny in its appearance.
‘If Apple made a GTK3 theme it would look like this’
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Trevilla theme 4.2. A GNOME, Metacity and Unity theme for the latest release of the Ubuntu operating system. Feb 4th 2014, 07:35 GMT. This Mac OS X Transformation Pack consists of four Mac GTK themes, three Mac icon themes, Mac boot screen, and Mac like LightDM theme. The commands and instructions to change an Ubuntu 14.04 looks like Mac OS X are given below. There are some instructions to revert back to default Ubuntu. Simple things first. Download Mac OS X Lion Wallpapers.
Unlike other attempts at aping the appearance of Cupertino’s finest OS, this one actually looks and feels like it was made for Linux and not the half-hearted mish-mash of OS X assets laid over basic theming that other themes of this ilk tend to resemble. If Apple made a GTK3 theme chances are it would look like Zukimac.
From pixel-perfect handling of Nautilus to suitably styled maximised Unity controls – the developer of Zukimac has clearly put a lot of thought and attention into fashioning their theme to work as well as it can.
Why Do This?
Whenever we cover a theme that apes the appearance of another operating system the question of why you might want to do it will arise. Motivation is subjective, as is taste, so the short answer is: “Don’t like it? Don’t use it!”
There’s nothing ‘traitorous’ or ‘anti-Linux’ in mimicking the design of another platform. Most Linux desktop environments are versatile enough to allow extensive theming. Blatant imitations like Zukimac as well as those that simply take a few cues from elsewhere, all take advantage of this opportunity. Other operating systems require tinkering with inner parts of the system to achieve what those of us on Linux can do in just a couple of clicks.
And as knee-jerk as some may find it, the designs of Windows, OS X, iOS or Android do have fans and do have years of expertise and reasoning behind them.
Pairing accurately styled ‘traffic light’ window controls and the faux metal sheen in app headers, the theme also features a nice blue highlight, stark white menus and does a standout job of handling Nautilus — a key app many themes fail to pay attention to.
Unity integration is also fully supported. Integrated and app menus work fine, and on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS launcher items are displayed without the rounded bounding box (see top screen). Depending on your favoured icon theme the latter tweak can look particularly slick.
Zukimac for Linux
Zukimac is a free download available from GNOME-Look and provides support for both GTK 3.10 and GTK 3.12. It does not include an icon theme or any assets copyrighted to Apple.
beta build of Ubuntu One for OS X has been released by the Ubuntu One team.
The team say that the client will ‘give all users regardless of platform, access to all the great benefits of Ubuntu One.”Its’ release means that all three major desktop OSes are now able to use Ubuntu One.Ubuntu is supported by default, and a Windows client has been available for over a year.Mobile devices aren’t left out either, with file sync apps for for iOS and Android. A third-party client is even available for Nokia N9 users.
There are no exclusive new features for Mac users to revel in; no Mountain Lion notifications on successful syncing; no fancy drag ‘n’ drop uploader a la Minus.But as unattractive as that will seem to Mac-exclusive users it’s entirely understandable from a development POV; the more platform-specific features you have the more work you open yourself up to!Features such as file searching and link sharing are present, however:
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So that’s what it’s like, but how do you get it?Just point your browser in the direction of one.ubuntu.com/downloads/mac and follow the prompts.Alternatively, if you’re super-lazy, you can just hit the button below to grab the .dmg of Ubuntu One for Mac Beta instantly.