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Evolve is a simple and minimal light theme designed to be easy on the eyes. It supports Gnome, Unity and Xfce.

Installation instructions

Ubuntu users can install Evolve from our themes PPA using the following commands,

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:satyajit-happy/themes
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install evolve-gtk-theme


Manual installation

Extract the zip file to the themes directory i.e. /usr/share/themes/

To set the theme in Gnome, run the following commands in Terminal,

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme "Evolve"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences theme "Evolve"


To set the theme in Xfce, run the following commands in Terminal,

xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName -s "Evolve"
xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/theme -s "Evolve"


Requirements

GTK+ 3.6 or above

Murrine theme engine

Notes

For older GTK versions, download the theme from launchpad,

GTK+ 3.4: https://launchpad.net/~satyajit-happy/+archive/themes/+files/evolve-gtk-theme_2012.07.05-0~satya164~precise.tar.gz

GTK+ 3.2: https://launchpad.net/~satyajit-happy/+archive/themes/+files/evolve-gtk-theme_2012.01.27-0~satya164~oneiric.tar.gz (Adwaita engine required)
Last changelog:

30.10.2013 - Reworked Xfwm4 theme, minor fixes

25.10.2013 - Added GTK3.10 support, major overhaul

26.05.2013 - Added GTK 3.8 support

18.01.2013 - Fixes to GtkCalendar, adjusted infobar colors

08.01.2013 - Minor changes

18.12.2012 - Improvements to wm themes and wingpanel, re-enabled animations for buttons

28.11.2012 - Fixes to mutter theme and backdrop states, other fixes and tweaks

10.11.2012 - Improved button styles

02.11.2012 - Disabled CSS transitions to fix memory-leaks

30.10.2012 - Tweaks to panel theming

29.10.2012 - New style for toolbar, progressbar and scrollbar

26.10.2012 - Added CSS transitions, many minor fixes and code cleanup

24.10.2012 - Support GTK3.6, Xfce support, various improvements

05.07.2012 - Fixed a bug in GtkHTML, removed Adwaita dependency

25.06.2012 - Added support for granite dynamic notebook widget

22.06.2012 - Improved GTK2 integration, added mutter theme, various fixes

17.06.2012 - Added backdrop styles, changed checkbox and radio styles, minor enhancements

16.06.2012 - Changed scrollbar and slider style, better granite widgets support, changes to metacity theme, misc improvements

14.06.2012 - Fixed checkbox and radio, fixed separator color, light tooltip style

11.06.2012 - Granite Widgets support (expect better compatibility with elementary apps), fixed tootips in empathy

31.05.2012 - Ported to Gnome 3.4, rewrite metacity theme

23.01.2012 - Minor Improvements, fixes for checkbox and radio buttons in GTK3

31.12.2011 - Improvements to GTK2, added style for overlay scrollbars

26.12.2011 - Minor improvements

19.12.2011 - Included a dark theme (for apps like movie player), delete the gtk-dark.css file, if you don't want to use it

18.12.2011 - Fixed infobar color in GTK2, improvements to the sidebar, slider, misc enhancements

14.12.2011 - Made GTK2 styles more in line with GTK3 styles, changed progressbar style

12.12.2011 - Improvements to toggle switch, scrollbar, fixes for chrome.chromium, misc changes for GTK2

11.12.2011 - Removed resize-grip, improvements to toggle switch, infobar

04.12.2011 - Fixed many visual glitches

03.12.2011 - Decreased scrollbar width, fixed tooltip border, lighter selection color, fixed gnome2/mate panel background

25.10.2011 - Removed dark theme because of some odd behaviours, fixed dark scrollbar in GTK2

24.10.2011 - Fixed scrollbar highlight, included a dark theme (for apps like movie player), added Unity support

23.10.2011 - Fixed selection background, removed Unico engine dependency

22.10.2011 - Initial Release for Gnome 3.2


Ratings & Comments

57 Comments

koniuszko

it is possible to work this theme in linux mint 17 with cinnamon ?

moonshadow

nice theme. what wallpaper do you use in the screenshot?

JCA

In the GTK+ Theme I see the scrollbars of some common applications like Firefox, Opera or Aptana Studio 3 with a very different style like to the native gnome applications when you use this theme combined with other ones, is this a bug or is it strictly required to use both window and gtk theme together?

satya164

They aren't themable by the GTK theme as they aren't native GTK.

Edward066

Great Theme! The only problem is that the Movie player and the image viewer theme is black http://postimg.org/image/jswwq2lo7/

Edward066

Here is a screenshot http://postimg.org/image/jswwq2lo7/

satya164

It's a feature, not a bug. If you don't want the dark theme in media apps, just delete the file gtk-dark.css under gtk-3.0

Edward066

Thank you very much for your help :) Keep it up my friend! I like your stuff :)

altea

You do awsome things !

satya164

:D

wkr

May I suggest an improvement ? In the Desktop switcher of Xfce panel,active and inactive desktop have the same color. It will better if the active desktop was highlihted by a different color. Otherwise my favorite theme : pleasant, confortable and lisible.

wkr

EDIT : By desktop color I meant background color of active workspace

ivanm48

Hi, thankyou, beautiful theme. Can you tell me please which font and icons are shown in preview image? Thanks a lot,

satya164

The font is Comfortaa and the icons are xubuntu-icon-theme

layers

Congrats and thanks on this great looking theme. But I really have to have those icons - I'm talking about the ones in the Nautilus left panel - those dark ones. They are not the xubuntu theme. Can you tell me their name, or maybe upload them somewhere?

satya164

They are symbolic icons. Nautilus 3.6 uses symbolic icons.

layers

apparently, they are installed on my laptop as well. Where are they?

layers

oops. i found them. I wonder why they don't appera somewhere where I can just select them. Do I have to replace them in the current theme folder in order to use them in nautilus 3.4?

norpan111

I just installed this theme on xubuntu 13.10 and it looks nothing like the picture.. what did i do wrong? I installed trrough the ppa.. the file manager looks absolutely nothing like it.. its default with xubuntu (thunar) Is that the problem? What about others? I have strange window-boarders also looking exactly like greybird?

satya164

I'm on GTK3.10 which supports client side decorations. Thunar is still GTK2, hence it has doesn't have client side decorations. I hope Xfce gets ported to GTK3 soon and you get to enjoy this :D BTW the WM theme is actually very similar to Greybird.

hiuty

This theme is fantastic, you are great!!! ;) I'd have just a question: is there a way to have the black panel (like ambiance) on Unity with this theme? Many thanks in advance :)

satya164

You can do it with GTK theme preferences - http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/customize-gtk3-gtk2-theme-colors-using.html

nebrit

I found you, has updated its ubuntu 12.10 ppa, GTK the theme works correctly, but the theme of windows does not work, the theme keeps coming ambiance rather than evolve, but evolve is selected, get the windows theme ambiance . You can correct this error and I go right in ubuntu 12.10 theme.

satya164

I guess you installed it in ~/.themes Please install with the .deb or place it in /usr/share/themes for the window theme to work. This is a bug in Ubuntu 12.10.

ticoon

I have the same problem, I cannot set the windows theme and I placed it in the following folder /usr/share/themes.

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