• _fat_santa 3 hours ago

    I'll be honest my experiences with themes for Linux have been quite poor. Even with good ones it works for some apps but not others and you end up spending all your time fixing edge cases or just dealing with some windows not looking right.

    My solution has been to just use the default Ubuntu theme that ships with Gnome. I find that theme just seems to work the best across most of my apps with a few small exceptions, compare this to other themes I've tried where only like half of the windows look right.

    I'm sure there are better themes out there and I could achieve perfect consistency if I dug deep enough and tweaked enough things. But at least in my case I already spend many hours on my computer coding and something like desktop theming is super low on my list, it's one of those things I just need to work because I don't have time to be focusing on that crap.

    The same goes for my desktop environment. I am well aware that Gnome is not the best and if I put it enough effort I could have a dream setup with XFCE or one of the many tiling window managers. But for me it just goes back to not having time, the thing I love about Gnome is that even though it may be more of a resource hog, it just f*king works.

    • cosmic_cheese 3 hours ago

      I’ve not actually built any themes so take these thoughts with a grain of salt, but my impression is that with GTK at least, most of the problems come down to CSS conflicts and libadwaita doing its own thing separate from GTK proper. It seems like a lot of GTK apps hardcode colors, fonts, etc instead of parameterizing too, which means they aren’t going to respond to theme changes correctly. All together these combine to produce a pretty spotty theming experience.

      Things seem a bit better on the Qt side of things, but it suffers resolution scaling issues. Most KDE/Qt themes I’ve tried can’t draw correctly at non-integer scales.

      Personally I think that CSS is actually pretty badly suited for the use case of desktop UI toolkit theming. It’s fine for one-off apps but quickly becomes a mess when it needs to be part of a larger more flexible system.

      • kristopolous 3 hours ago

        personally I don't get it. If I wanted a macbook, I'd get a macbook. These things are cute and fun, ok, but do people actually want to use it?

        • cosmic_cheese 3 hours ago

          Desktop environments are inherently very personal things and so what one person might find great, someone else might consider unusable. Themes are a good way to add room for user preference without forcing the user to change desktop environments entirely.

          For example, before libadwaita screwed it all up I used to like to apply a custom theme to GNOME to cut down on the egregious padding everywhere, making the UI a much better fit for non-touch desktop OS use on a small laptop screen. There were several themes that accomplished that very well.

          • asveikau 2 hours ago

            I think it made substantially more sense in the 1990s.

            For one, Gtk+ used to be advertised as a multi platform toolkit, with a port of GDK to Win32. Making Gtk+ widgets look like Win32 made sense for that.

            Secondly, there were two groups of people using Linux and X11 in that era: one group who were exiles from commercial Unix, and another, faster growing group coming from Windows. For the former group, it was reasonable to want widgets to look more like Motif or Athena. The latter group wanted a more modern look, which could depart from old school Unix workstations.

            • squiggleblaz 22 minutes ago

              In fact, the only change from your characterisation is that the toolkit has been renamed from Gtk+ to GTK. Here is an example of a current claim: "GTK is a library for creating graphical user interfaces. It works on many UNIX-like platforms, Windows, and macOS." https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/overview.html

              I think what has changed is user expecations; in the the 1990s, there was an expectation that programs should look like the native toolkit; whereas by now, it's even questionable whether there is a native toolkit on Windows (due to the range of choice, each of which a noticeably different in look and feel) and program-specific appearance is the norm on mobile and web applications. Nowadays, you could probably write a slightly customised Adwaita app for Windows and you'd get by more satisfactorily than if you wrote a plain GTK app and tried to theme it to modern Win32.

            • joshuamt15 3 hours ago

              I just like how the cursor looks. I'd never buy a mac but I can admit the icons and design look nice.

              • pndy 3 hours ago

                Maybe Posy cursor would be a good substitute for you: https://michieldb.nl/other/cursors/

                • kristopolous 3 hours ago

                  there's cursor themes on linux and although you have to apply them in the usual wonky linux way, it's totally possible and it is independent of the window manager.

                  Of course some applications do their own cursor management so if you do it poorly your cursor hops around themes as you drag it over various windows based on the toolkit they use but then again, that's what we all signed up for.

              • Fnoord 3 hours ago

                If you want Ubuntu theme but with different accent color, there is Yaru [1].

                [1] https://github.com/ubuntu/yaru

                • pooriamokhtari 26 minutes ago

                  > it just f*king works.

                  I think this is the first time I've heard anyone say this about the Linux desktop experience! Kudos to the GNOME/UBUNTU people I guess.

                  • mitchell209 3 hours ago

                    Even if a theme is perfect, it eventually stops getting updated with new versions of whatever you're using so you have to give it up eventually.

                    • adityamwagh 3 hours ago

                      Have you tried the Pop_OS theme? I think it looks good.

                      • dtkav 3 hours ago

                        Pop!_OS also has a built-in tiling window feature called "Automatic Window Tiling." It's integrated into the default desktop environment rather than being a separate tiling window manager like dwm. Nice to have something like dwm but without any fiddling.

                      • andrepd 3 hours ago

                        I've used Mint-X/Y (the default theme for Linux Mint on Cinnamon) for over a decade now, and my experience has always been great.

                        • imp0cat 3 hours ago

                          Yeah, the default Ubuntu theme is great.

                          And if you ever happen to feel adventurous, various Gnome extensions such as Burn My Windows can give you more than enough eye candy while still keeping the stock theme.

                          https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4679/burn-my-windows/

                        • Retr0id 5 hours ago

                          It's been a long time since I last installed a theme of any kind. In my past experiences, there was always aesthetic jank at the "boundaries" of themed vs unthemed elements. The "Fix for libadwaita (not perfect)" subheading doesn't inspire confidence - not a knock on this specific theme, just one of the hazards of theming in general.

                          • al_borland 4 hours ago

                            My issue tends to be that themes that try to emulate a different OS can only do it in style, not in function. So while a screenshot might look similar, it won't function in the same way as the OS it's trying to be, which leads to compromises all over the place... and the aforementioned jank.

                            Gnome, for example, doesn't have a minimize concept. There is an extension to add it, but it's janky and feels weird. No amount of theming is going to change this, when the underlying system wasn't designed around it.

                            • cosmic_cheese 3 hours ago

                              For GNOME, the bigger problem in my opinion is no option for a global menubar. Though there are similarities between macOS toolbars and GNOME headerbars, the former isn’t bearing nearly as much of a load as the latter is because Mac toolbars don't need to cover every function an app provides. Less-used/niche functions just don’t get a button and instead live tucked away neatly in one of any number of menus at the top of the screen.

                              On the other hand in GNOME apps, if a function isn’t used often enough to earn a spot in the app’s headerbar or hamburger menu it just gets tossed, because otherwise the hamburger menu becomes long and unusable. This results in less functional apps that are not as well equipped to keep up with growth in the user’s skill.

                              • jorvi 3 hours ago

                                Gnome does have a minimize concept? It's just hidden (haha) by default.

                                  gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout ":minimize,maximize,close"
                                • exe34 4 hours ago

                                  I could live with the jank and functionality if it would stay consistent over time - but you know it's going to be broken at the next GNOME update, and the next version won't just suck more, but the theme will also not quite work anymore and it's like multiple papercuts every time. Nowadays I have xmonad, xterm and emacs and a few gnome apps but I would replace them in a heartbeat if they annoyed me enough.

                                  • andrepd 3 hours ago

                                    Breaking UI and functionality for no reason whatsoever, with no option to change it back, often with mandatory updates, is one of my #1 pet peeves with modern software.

                                • hollerith 4 hours ago

                                  Also, plugins (and themes) have a short expected lifetime on Gnome because it is tedious for a maintainer to adapt the plugin to the high rate of churn in Gnome.

                                  • cosmic_cheese 3 hours ago

                                    IIRC GNOME also doesn’t have much of an official plugin API, which makes the situation that much worse. Plugins just have to tinker with GNOME internals and hope for the best.

                                  • ahoka 14 minutes ago

                                    “Fix” means hack here. GNOME and libadwaita does not officially support changing the theme like this.

                                    • mystifyingpoi 4 hours ago

                                      I remember the massive PITA that was running KDE with Gnome apps (or vice versa). The eyesore was unbelievable, and the official fixes required installing extra bridge themes, that tried to unify the look of everything, which of course wasn't perfect. This is better now, but even in 2025 GParted looks wrong under KDE, and this is sad.

                                      • pjerem 3 hours ago

                                        > even in 2025 GParted looks wrong under KDE, and this is sad.

                                        I did care a lot about this 10-15 years ago. Unfortunately, somehow I don’t even notice this anymore. In 2025, and thanks to web apps, everything looks wrong on my desktop.

                                        It doesn’t help that I’m a developer and that basically not any single modern IDE / text editor cares about looking native.

                                        Even Firefox and Thunderbird aren’t looking integrated anymore.

                                        • Fnoord 3 hours ago

                                          Qt has been having good compatibility for Gtk for a long, long time. The other way around not so much.

                                        • OsrsNeedsf2P 4 hours ago

                                          This is true for most Gnome themes, but I used Chicago95 (on XFCE) for 3 years and could count the "jank" on one hand: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

                                          • rbanffy 3 hours ago

                                            I know there is no accounting for taste, but... If I wanted the 90's back, I'd go with OpenLook or IRIX's theme.

                                        • OsrsNeedsf2P 4 hours ago

                                          I was at a Ubuntu conference in Korea a few years ago and there was this kid with a Macbook running Linux but it was themed perfectly to MacOS.

                                          It was all very amusing until he tried to present and the HDMI didn't work.

                                          • rbanffy 3 hours ago

                                            > It was all very amusing until he tried to present and the HDMI didn't work.

                                            Let me guess... Nvidia?

                                            • ramon156 30 minutes ago

                                              I cannot stress enough how much the nvidia situation pisses me off. I've had to convince colleagues that their bad experience is with nvidia drivers, not linux.

                                              If your only solution is to buy a completely different version of a laptop to fix jankyness, most people would just say fuck it and opt for a macbook instead. It's a shame people dismiss linux because of that experience, but I cannot blame them.

                                          • nullifidian 3 hours ago

                                            This reminded me of the anti-theming sentiment in the gnome developer community https://stopthemingmy.app/

                                            • saghm 3 hours ago

                                              I'd happily never customize a theme again if there were any other easy way to actually pick the background and foreground colors on all of my apps. I like having white text on a black background, not a "dark" gray background and white text (and certainly not some off-white background with some dark but not fully black text, which I find even worse than just a typical black text on white background theme). I'm well aware of the fact that it probably does nothing in terms of actually affecting the battery life of my devices, and that dark gray is considered "better" from design perspective, but I don't care, because I happen to like the way the color scheme I describe looks, and I don't see why it should matter whether it does to anyone else if it's just going to be on a device that I'm the only one who ever uses. For whatever reason, this is next to impossible to do without rolling my own GTK theme (not even just using one that someone else had made, because I literally couldn't find one that just changed the background to black without having a bunch of other opinionated decisions on icons and padding and stuff), so that's what I do. I'm grateful that this is even possible though, because apps that aren't GTK (or Qt, which is also possible to theme) often don't provide any ability to theme whatsoever. With the exception of coding editors, I'm not sure I've ever found an Electron app that actually lets me pick a fully black background color, so despite not being particularly dogmatic in my opposition to them, I always try to run stuff like Slack and Discord in the browser so I can theme them with custom CSS. (I'm vaguely aware that this might be possible to do with the electron apps as well by running in some sort of developer mode, but I can't be bothered to spend a bunch of time trying to replicate what I already have working in the browser for their sites).

                                              Expressing their argument as "don't use custom themes" just makes it less convincing when there aren't really any other easy ways to get the flexibility from them that doesn't cause any of the issues they cite. It would be like finding out that a friend or relative uses the same password for every site, and then trying to get to them to install a package manager by uninstalling Windows and switching to Linux at the same time. Mixing together subjective personal preferences with objective technical advice just dilutes the latter to the point where it's impossible to find it compelling.

                                              • tuna74 an hour ago

                                                Isn't custom accent colors implemented in the latest Gtk/libadwaita?

                                              • mountainriver 3 hours ago

                                                This is peak nonsense

                                                • rbanffy 3 hours ago

                                                  In the mid 2000's, I loved trying different themes. These days I just take whatever is the default for Gnome, which is remarkably sane, usually more comfortable than a Mac, and consistent.

                                                  Some themes solve real problems, especially for the visually impaired, but that's not the norm. It's a fun work of art, but the utility is always limited. More often than I like to admit, I was left with a broken desktop after attempting to uninstall a theme that didn't work well enough (or at all), and that couldn't be fixed by installing another on top of it.

                                                  There are more pressing issues in Gnome than to provide a stable theme API.

                                                  • skerit 3 hours ago

                                                    Gnome also made it _a lot_ harder to override the default Adwaita theme in libadwaita applications. Not impossible, just very annoying.

                                                    This happened together with a GTK UI redesign, turning it into yet another flat UI.

                                                • alberth 5 hours ago

                                                  Probably don't want to use the trademarked Apple logo and Finder icon in this theme (as seen in the top screenshot).

                                                  And I don't see exactly what's different in the "Default" -> "Majave" Nautlis style ...

                                                  But otherwise, the theme looks quiet nice.

                                                  • InsideOutSanta 5 hours ago

                                                    The difference is whether the sidebar ends below the tile bar, or goes through the title bar.

                                                    • wk_end 3 hours ago

                                                      It's so subtle it almost seems like parody.

                                                    • runjake 5 hours ago

                                                      Or the copyrighted Launchpad, Activity Monitor, App Store, Music, and Safari icons in the screenshot.

                                                      • michaelmrose 3 hours ago

                                                        Pretty easy to avoid copyright by making your own icons then you are left with trademark.

                                                        I'm honestly at that point not sure if there is an issue you aren't offering a confusingly similar product. Mac isn't offering an icon pack they merely have one. At least they don't appear to have ever gone after Macish icon themes legally.

                                                      • bdcravens 5 hours ago

                                                        Default the sidebar is full height

                                                      • cf100clunk 4 hours ago

                                                        LinuxScoop has been working on macOS-like themes for KDE, Gnome, and XFCE over the years and versions:

                                                        https://invidious.baczek.me/channel/UCNnUnr4gwyNmzx_Bbzvt29g...

                                                        • winrid 17 minutes ago

                                                          Still no icon preview in file picker though right? :)

                                                          • Synaesthesia 4 hours ago

                                                            I noticed Mac OS dock clones never use the same scaling method as Apple's. That's because they patented it!

                                                            • comex 4 hours ago

                                                              Huh, I never knew that.

                                                              But it looks like those patents have expired:

                                                              https://patents.google.com/patent/US7434177B1/en

                                                              https://patents.google.com/patent/US8640045B2/en

                                                              (in any case, this particular theme uses exact copies of some Apple icons [albeit apparently redrawn], suggesting the author probably wasn’t worrying much about IP rights.)

                                                              • Aurornis 3 hours ago

                                                                This theme isn’t shy about copying various icons and bits from macOS, so I doubt that’s it.

                                                                • michaelmrose 3 hours ago

                                                                  7. The computer system of claim 6, wherein said others of said plurality of tiles each has a left edge and a right edge located at distances d1 and d2 from said cursor, and is moved to a position such that said left edge has a distance d1 from said cursor and said right edge has a distance d2′ from said cursor wherein:

                                                                  d 1 ′=S×sine(π÷2×d 1 ÷W)

                                                                  d 2 ′=S×sine(π÷2×d 2 ÷W). 8. The computer system of claim 7, wherein said at least one of said plurality of tiles is scaled by a factor of:

                                                                  1+(d2′−d1′)÷(d2−d1).

                                                                  This is... not an invention.

                                                                • acheong08 5 hours ago

                                                                  Surprising to see this up here. I used it for a few years and I do still believe Apple generally has better design than most gnome/kde themes. Gnome is unfortunately quite buggy and I've switched off since

                                                                  • prymitive 4 hours ago

                                                                    I think that the default Gnome theme is fantastic, unique and very elegant. It has nothing to be ashamed of even when compared to macOS look and feel.

                                                                    • amlib 3 hours ago

                                                                      Considering it used to look like this¹ it's no wonder why people (including me) were desperate to theme it. It took until the last two or so years for me to not care to do that because the default look and feel of gnome is now pretty good.

                                                                      Still, I wished they offered some more adjustments rather than just a paltry selection of accent colors (you can't even select a specific color...)

                                                                      [1] https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/gnome...

                                                                      • pjerem 3 hours ago

                                                                        I’m not the last to criticize (relatively, I respect the things I’ve got for free) Gnome but yes, aesthetically, I prefer Adwaita to macOS.

                                                                      • hei-lima 4 hours ago

                                                                        I use it, and it's really very good and beautiful. However, I set everything to dark colors.

                                                                        But there's something that really bothers me, and none of the fixes work: I can't get the cursor to work in GTK applications! It always switches to the default. It's not the theme's fault, as this happens with all the others...

                                                                        • InMice an hour ago

                                                                          Sometimes I wonder what the desktop linux experience would be like if all the total effort put in was focused on the unification of userspace instead of endless fragmentation.

                                                                          That said, I still respect this effort :)

                                                                          • derefr 2 hours ago

                                                                            The part of macOS I miss when using a Linux desktop isn't how macOS looks, it's how you interact with it.

                                                                            • I miss the keyboard shortcuts. Not only what they are, but also the strict conformity macOS apps have to using the same set of keyboard shortcuts for everything. (Did you know that Cmd+[ and Cmd+] work as "Back" and "Forward" in the Finder; in both Safari and Chrome and Firefox; and even in the iTunes Music Store views in Music.app? Did you know that Cmd+Shift+[ and Cmd+Shift+] work to move between tabs in literally every app that has tabs — including things you wouldn't normally think of as "tabs", e.g. the sheets of a spreadsheet in Numbers?)

                                                                            • I miss the Menu Bar. Specifically, I miss app menus in the Menu Bar. I know there are some themes with UI hacks that can trick Linux applications into disgorging their toplevel menu bars into some global faux Menu Bar — but that assumes that apps even have toplevel menu bars. Many Linux apps don't; they have top-level right-click menus, or top-level hierarchical modal navigation sidebars. And because of this, Linux apps also mostly just "have" keyboard shortcuts — toplevel window keyboard listeners. Whereas in macOS apps, all keyboard shortcuts are really keyboard accelerators for app-menu entries. Which means that everything you can do with the keyboard, you can also find in app's menu; the app's menu is an exhaustive access-point for all of the app's behaviors. And everything you can do in the menu, can be bound to a custom accelerator, or wired up with shell automation/scripting, or exposed to an accessibility device, or full-text-searched using the now-universal search box that appears under the Help app-menu. (Also, for those with not-so-tall screens, having the app's top-level menus pulled out into the Menu Bar means that if you 1. make an app full-screen and 2. set the shell to hide the Menu Bar when an app is full-screen, then you can reclaim the vertical screen real-estate of the app's top-level menu, with them just appearing — along with the rest of the Menu Bar — only when you hover the top of the screen. There'd be no sensible way to reclaim this same chunk of screen real-estate in fullscreened apps with internal top-level menu bars.)

                                                                            • I miss the carefully-thought-out filesystem organized around bundle directories. Apps are bundles; plugins are bundles; libraries/frameworks are bundles. There are no installers, no package managers; bundles just sit where they sit, and then their Info.plist metadata can be auto-discovered by the OS (through Spotlight indexing, gated by Gatekeeper allow-listing), and registered with weak-reference semantics. (That is: drop an app that opens filetype X onto your computer — suddenly that filetype knows it can open in that app. First time you actually try it, Gatekeeper notices you haven't actually said you trust the app yet, and warns you. Remove the app, and the filetype associations automatically get purged — they were technically just a cache/index of the app-bundle's Info.plist, after all, so if the canonical association entries go away, the cache entries go away too.) This also means that macOS "libraries" and "plugins" don't have to spew themselves across half the filesystem; they both just bundle everything up and present themselves as a single file — one that has no default interaction verb, and so "tucks its protected members away", without actually being inconvenient to dig into, the way a shared object with embedded resources would be.

                                                                            • A specific point of the above: I miss disk images. Not so much the ones apps come in — Apple themselves invented a better alternative to those with integrity-verified .xip files (with support, through Safari, for auto-self-extraction, and for auto-Gatekeeper-vouching when the archive is Apple-signed. Sadly these never spread to third-party support, and Apple themselves stopped using them in favor of just distributing things like Xcode through the Mac App Store.) Rather, I miss the deep UI integration with sparsebundle disk images. When I use macOS, I use sparsebundles for everything — they're technically disk images, but in practice, they just act like archive files, growing in size along with your usage rather than having a preallocated size. Unlike your average Linux loopback image, they're actually directories (bundles!) consisting of a bunch of 4MB "band" files. The "sparse" part is "sparse" like sparse-file support, but it works in a completely filesystem-oblivious way: the sparsebundle block-device layer notices whenever a given band would be updated to contain entirely zeroes — and just deletes the underlying band file instead. Mounting a sparsebundle that lives on a remote SMB share is the most low-latency, IO-efficient way I've ever seen of interacting with many small files (such as a remote git worktree.) It's no wonder macOS internally uses sparsebundle-mounts-over-SMB for Time Machine backups. (And they can be encrypted easily, too — not just with a custom passphrase, but also with a key held in a macOS Keychain — which doesn't have to be your default one!)

                                                                            • jcgl 14 minutes ago

                                                                              I'm not at all a Mac person, but this whole comment was a really interesting read.

                                                                              Regarding the shortcut-listeners-not-accelerators things in Linux, is it really not equivalent when an app uses a fully featured toolkit like Qt that (presumably) has support for specifying the semantics of various controls?

                                                                              Aside: I still miss the Unity desktop environment that Ubuntu used to have. It had its flaws for sure (e.g. poor performance and relying on a patched version of Mutter), but its implementation of a global menu was just superb. The ergonomics of having it at the top of the screen were great, and having each entry be searchable was a breath of fresh air. I've been happy enough with KDE Plasma for a while now, but would jump at the chance to have that global menu with search again.

                                                                              • cosmic_cheese 11 minutes ago

                                                                                As much as I appreciate desktop Linux (particularly with Windows getting worse by the minute) it really kills me that these points can’t be fully replicated under it. All the DEs are geared for Windows-like or tablet-OS-like experience first and foremost, with a few niche oddballs mimicking unices of old. WMs are predominantly hyperminimalist tiling things. There’s nothing that reproduces a Mac desktop experience beyond the most superficial level.

                                                                              • ritcgab 2 hours ago

                                                                                This is good work.

                                                                                But my desktop has looked identical for the last five years, and I wish it would stay the same for the next ten years.

                                                                                • replete 4 hours ago

                                                                                  Use this on Fedora, mostly works great apart from a few apps for whatever reason do their own thing.

                                                                                  • Wowfunhappy 4 hours ago

                                                                                    > works great apart from a few apps for whatever reason do their own thing.

                                                                                    Frankly, that's also my experience using real macOS.

                                                                                    • rbanffy 3 hours ago

                                                                                      Doing your own thing in macOS is a cardinal sin. I know it might be unavoidable depending on the tooling you are using, but, still... Don't.

                                                                                      • grvbck 33 minutes ago

                                                                                        Unless you are Kai Krause and very determined to make some users love your GUI while the rest scream in agony.

                                                                                        • replete 2 hours ago

                                                                                          Not really, you can tweak a lot with the right CLI commands, and the desktop experience is not constantly being messed with or your settings reverted, as is the case with Windows and its forced updates.

                                                                                        • replete 2 hours ago

                                                                                          I am referring to how some window buttons not rendering macOS style in some linux applications.

                                                                                        • Mad_ad 4 hours ago

                                                                                          are they Flatpaks?

                                                                                        • bsimpson 4 hours ago

                                                                                          It shows the stoplight-style close widgets on the right in the first screenshot and the left on the later ones. Is that configurable?

                                                                                          It looks like the apps in the example are designed to use the space all the way up to y=0, so I didn't expect to be able to move them to the left, but it looks uncanny on the right.

                                                                                          There's a difference between convention and brand infringement. I'd be down to try a theme that moved the widgets to a familiar place, but showing the Apple menu on a non-Apple system is a bridge too far.

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                                                                                            • michaelmrose 3 hours ago

                                                                                              There are certain terms that indicate membership in a particular set like management, sales, HR that include for a greater understanding of the particular field and a kind of othering of the rest of the human species because one's field is at odds with the rest of the population. EG only sales entertains the fantasy that it is serving the population by connecting needs and products. The rest of us recognize the cat stalking in the tall grass.

                                                                                              "Brand Infringement" is one of those terms. Apple ought to be worried that Samsung is copying look and feel of their iphone because they are directly attempting to entice their customers away from their most profitable market.

                                                                                              A theme for 0.5% of 1% of existing users of another OS to make their environment look like Mac carries none of the risk. Finding out if our judicial system actually considers it so it would probably require 2 parties and hundreds of thousands to a few mil to decide.

                                                                                              A threatening letter might well shut something down to no benefit to anyone and at a cost of good will.

                                                                                              So perhaps disengage boring business mode and enjoy nice things. After all do you really feel morally bad about theming your own desktop as if you should be respecting someone's "brand identity"

                                                                                            • lxe 3 hours ago

                                                                                              I've been a fan of the Author's other theme: Orchis

                                                                                              https://github.com/vinceliuice/Orchis-theme

                                                                                              • nancyp 3 hours ago

                                                                                                But why fake it? Mac osx has the worst ux for window management.

                                                                                                • cafeinux 3 hours ago

                                                                                                  Great, it should integrate perfectly with GNOME then!

                                                                                                  • amlib 2 hours ago

                                                                                                    I used to be KDE nut until version 4 came around. I stuck for a while but once gnome 3 got a few years of development on it's back I started liking it more over the direction KDE took. Nowadays I just use GNOME and think their design and HIG works really well across multiple different devices. Be it a desktop with a big screen and tons of real estate for lots of windows showing up concurrently, running on a cramped notebook screen with mostly just a single FS widnow or two side by side or as a "couch" experience on my HTPC, with a great interface for a "ten foot UI" usage.

                                                                                                    I've also heard some good feedback on how well it works on a phone/tablet context but haven't had the chance of trying that my-self. Perhaps the GNOME project is on the right track for converging all those computing experiences in one in a way that makes sense, specially compared to the train wreck that microsoft's attempt unifying stuff in windows 8/mobile was.

                                                                                                  • JanisErdmanis 2 hours ago

                                                                                                    If only gnome shell could be used on Mac OS, I would jump at heartbeat. I really can’t understand what apple developers had in mind when bringing window in focus which is present in the current screen it switches to a different workplace. Is it a bug or is it intentional is hard to tell with macOS.

                                                                                                  • bloomingkales 5 hours ago

                                                                                                    I use this on windows to not feel dirty:

                                                                                                    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1787090/MyDockFinder/

                                                                                                    • SahAssar 4 hours ago

                                                                                                      > not feel dirty

                                                                                                      What is the dirty part referring to? MacOS, Windows or Linux?

                                                                                                      • bloomingkales 4 hours ago

                                                                                                        Windows UI is just unattractive to me. You can be a trillion dollar company and have no recourse on fixing your design quality.

                                                                                                        • rbanffy 3 hours ago

                                                                                                          Money and taste are not necessarily correlated. I too find it horrible.

                                                                                                          • margana 4 hours ago

                                                                                                            That's just personal preference. It works the other way around too.

                                                                                                            • diath 3 hours ago

                                                                                                              It's not a matter of personal preference, Windows UI is objectively atrocious. Like what is this even? Why does Windows need 20 different ways to handle context menus? https://i.imgur.com/uLLiMxS.png

                                                                                                              • p_ing 20 minutes ago

                                                                                                                Someone is complaining that a contextual menu is contextual?

                                                                                                                • bloomingkales a minute ago

                                                                                                                  Just in case this is sarcasm. The concept of a context menu is fine. Why are items moving around each list? Move/rename/back/forward/delete should be in the same spot for muscle memory. That picture should make you furious lol.

                                                                                                        • xyst 4 hours ago

                                                                                                          Wow it even has achievements :)

                                                                                                        • rcarmo 4 hours ago

                                                                                                          I have been using this for years, and love it. The only real niggle I have is that some of the document icons are actually old Windows icons and not Mac ones.

                                                                                                          • runjake 5 hours ago

                                                                                                            The middle "stoplight" button is 1-2 pixels higher than the others for me. Is this one purpose? It looks this way in the screenshot, as well, unless my eyes are playing tricks on me.

                                                                                                            • wruza 4 hours ago

                                                                                                              The green one? I checked the first screenshot in paint.net, they all equal. Maybe gamma/balance issues?

                                                                                                              • runjake 4 hours ago

                                                                                                                Thanks. That’s probably it.

                                                                                                              • wtallis 3 hours ago

                                                                                                                Are you wearing glasses with high-index lenses that cause significant chromatic aberration?

                                                                                                              • iknowstuff 4 hours ago

                                                                                                                Cute but Gnome already has a fairly macOS-like interface, really well polished, with great HIG, but with its own flair.

                                                                                                                • rbanffy 3 hours ago

                                                                                                                  I really appreciate Gnome's minimalism. It tries to do as little as possible and stays out of the way most of the time.

                                                                                                                  • nu11ptr an hour ago

                                                                                                                    I like it too, but I'm in the minority. Everyone always whines about it, but honestly I don't interact with the DE much. I run like 5 programs and switch between them. I just need a good launcher, task switcher and for it to look pretty doing it. That's it.

                                                                                                                • Kalanos 4 hours ago

                                                                                                                  For normies, does this work on Ubuntu?

                                                                                                                  • andrewmcwatters 4 hours ago

                                                                                                                    The metrics are wrong, and they can be looked up from Apple’s Design Resources.

                                                                                                                    • karparov 4 hours ago

                                                                                                                      I've never understood the appeal of such themes. If you really love to have an Apple logo in the top left corner, why not buy the original? What's the point?

                                                                                                                      • encom 3 hours ago

                                                                                                                        To spare oneself the misery of using Apple hardware, I assume.

                                                                                                                        • tredre3 3 hours ago

                                                                                                                          > To spare oneself the misery of using Apple hardware, I assume.

                                                                                                                          Come on, the pain (insofar that you experience pain) comes from the OS, not the hardware.

                                                                                                                          • amlib 3 hours ago

                                                                                                                            I've tried using a mac for work a year or so ago and the keyboard alone drove me crazy, constantly making mistakes and activating the wrong shortcuts. I wished they had IBM-ified their keyboard back when they went with Intel...

                                                                                                                            • rbanffy 3 hours ago

                                                                                                                              I think macOS is a perfectly fine Unix operating system. I use it with MacPorts and it does everything I need the exact way I expect it to be.

                                                                                                                              • p_ing 14 minutes ago

                                                                                                                                It's only UNIX 03 when you look at it funny. And not UNIX as shipped.

                                                                                                                                Why MacPorts and not brew?