I’m a sucker for non-flat UI themes. I’ve stuck to Adwaita for a long time cause it seemed to resist the trend of flattening everything, but recently I switched to GNOME 43 and now Adwaita’s fully flat too. Does anyone know of any nice and crisp skeuomorphic themes? (besides the elementaryOS theme)

Also, it seems there are currently 3 active themes on my system: the legacy Gtk 3 theme, the normal Gtk 4 theme, and the libadwaita gtk4 theme. I’ve only found a way to change the first of those three (via Tweaks)…

  • words_number@programming.dev
    191·
    9 months ago

    I can’t help you but I just came here to say that I also very much dislike the trend that everything has to look flat. Imho visual, simulated depth (through shadows, gradients, etc.) can make UIs look actually much cleaner, because hierarchy, grouping of elements and differentiation between buttons/text inputs and non-interactive elements is often much more obvious on first sight.

    • SubArcticTundraOP
      01·
      9 months ago

      Thanks, I agree. So far the only theme I’ve found is this one, which is at least Adwaita-level skeuomorphic. Might give it a try later

  • EccTMEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    Maybe check this itsfoss.com list and see if anything catches your eye?

    I can’t really suggest any specific themes; Every year or so I try a heap of different ones, they all annoy me in different ways, and I end up right where I started: using Adwaita again.

  • LassCalibur@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    There are a number of nice skeuomorphic tagged themes on pling and other icons and such also are available there. The best option might be to just abandon the trendy GTK scene and embrace good old TDE! TDE has KDE3’s Plastik theme which looks great to me! (And there is a new port available for current KDE if anyone is interested.) But the early pre-gummy version of ClearLooks would be my favorite if it existed. Raleigh is pretty nice with those classic zebra stripes! Please do let us all know what you find because there are many of us not so happy with the corporate minimalist aesthetic.

    • SubArcticTundraOP
      1·
      9 months ago

      Hmm, I’m quite accustomed to Gtk 3 by now but thanks for all these links, those are some cool+useful projects!