If you dislike dark theme, here's how you can have bright theme for Ubuntu Desktop. We can use XONE Catalina Shell Theme in mix with Yaru Light GTK Theme. I hope this can make your desktop look brighter and clearer for you. This includes some drawbacks, but I also includes some secrets below. Enjoy!
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Final Result
Your desktop would look like below examples with this light theme mix:
(Bright titlebar)
(Bright system tray)
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(Bright tooltip and left panel)
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 (Bright clock and calendar widget) |
 (Bright drop-down menu) |
Composition
GNOME Shell Theme: XONE Catalina: XO-Graphite
Download: https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1213208/
GTK Theme: Yaru Light
Download: (preinstalled)
Installation:
GNOME Tweak Tool
Install it with command line:
$ sudo apt-get install gnome-tweaks
Configuration
- First, change the Application Theme to Yaru Light.
- Second, install Shell Theme XONE XO Graphite.
- Third, enable XO-Graphite on Shell Theme selector.
Some Drawbacks
- The overview mode is still dark, I could not find any easy configuration to make it properly light.
- When edited to white or light color, the overview mode shows light text also, rendering the icons confusing for user.
- I could not find config to make text black on the overview mode.
Some Secrets
- Actually, you can edit manually a Shell theme, including its text size and colors, but a configuration may be extremely long (Theme above is approximately more than 3000 lines of code).
- The file name you can edit is gnome-shell.css in the folder ~/.local/share/themes/$THEME_NAME/.
- Every change you made to the theme file can be applied to desktop by pressing Alt+F2 then type r and then press Enter.
- There is an unofficial documentation about the codes you can edit here.
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