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Let's be honest, the rankings of gnome-look are weird at best and there is no good resource to gauge what icons / cursors / themes people like to use in their everyday DE.

So please share what icon-pack / cursor theme / GTK|QT theme you use, and why.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

I use the default breeze light on plasma. Most themes are broken or just too much. Breeze is great

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago
  • Icon theme : Papirus

  • Shell and GTK theme : Yaru Dark ( the ubuntu darkmode one )

For cursors, i use the default Adwaita. Even though i shifted from ubuntu to arch 7 years ago, i always liked the orangish theme of ubuntu.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I used to be really into theming. But now, the default Breeze and Adwaita look good enough that I haven't bothered wanting to change them in a couple years.

That and thmes always appeared to be some degree of "broken" that I just don't bother anymore.

I do always change the cursor to the black Adwaita one, even on KDE. It just feels right to me.

When I did still use themes, Numix, Arc Dark, and whatever "flat" themes that I could find were my favorites.

[–] Klaymore 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I used the Sweet-KDE color scheme for years on KDE Plasma, but recently I've been converting everything to Catppuccin Macchiato. Default icons and cursors.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I'm using EndeavourOS XFCE, but with two things on top:

  • Nightfox Dusk BL GTK theme
  • Tela Purple Dark icon theme

I think these two work really well together

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Icon theme : Papirus Theme: Catppuccin Macchiato Cursor: Catppuccin Dark

As you can see I enjoy the catppuccin colorscheme for its variety.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago
  • Papirus Icon Theme (Dark)
  • Bibata Cursor theme (Modern Ice)
  • Materia GTK Theme (Dark-compact)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Adapta-gtk with Papirus icons, because i like clear lines and less optical clutter.

I would like Materia too, but that goes actively against my choice to have some transparency in Whiskermenu.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I use bibata modern cursor + papirus icon theme

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Buuf cursor https://store.kde.org/p/1249129/ because I like a cursor that is good looking and easy to see (unlike the default camouflaged dark cursor) and it fits with Buuf icons https://store.kde.org/p/1305826/

I'm using a dark Kvantum theme that I customized with dark red highlights.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

That almost makes me want to try KDE again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Numix icon theme Catppuccin for GTK Apple Cursor

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

KDE Plasma 5

  • Global theme: Win7OS
  • App style: Oxygen
  • GTK theme: Windows10
  • Colours: Win7OS
  • Window Decorations: Expose Air
  • Fixed font: MesloLGS Nerd Font 10pt
  • Icons: Windows 7 Ultimate 7600

Good standard layout. None of that panel on the left nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would like to try out Dracula pro, but it is behind a pay wall ://.. There should be a demo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

yeah, its at least only a one-time payment (considering how much i have used the colorscheme i dont mind), plan to pick it up during cybermonday one day. I would assume there is no way to enforce the demo (likely no DRM which is also good)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, and I am not against paying for the work of others, of course. Though I do find the theme a bit too expensive and am out of funds right now. Perhaps in the future. Though I have tried many themes in the past and ended up not liking theme. Paying for a theme and then not liking/using it is a bit.. Hard to swallow..

But yes, it is a one time payment. Can you imagine if even themes start being subscription based? 5usd/month to use a fucking theme.. We are not that far off hahah

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

yeah, that i understand. am there too hence why I havent bought it yet, it's hard to justify a color palette when there are more pressing uses for your money. If and when I do buy the pro theme it would be more to support the creator than for the pro color scheme [a thank you for the long years of use], that way cant be upset if i dont like it :D

RIGHT! that would be insane, with [traditional] subscriptions I could stomach it if creators were getting paid instead of some corporate jackoff buying another yatch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I like the Kora icon pack.

Shameless self promotion, I made my own cursor pack. It's Splatoon-themed. https://www.pling.com/p/2040163/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I just use the papirus icon theme and the rest is pretty much stock. Breeze dark and the white kde plasma cursor theme. I cannot live without white cursors! I also like the new Linux Mint cursor theme a lot tho. Those are some chonky boys.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

For Gnome I use adw-gtk3 on automatic day/night switching because it makes everything look nice and uniform.

I prefer Tela icons to Papirus as they're less cartoony.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I really like the Mint Y icons, they're kinda round with soft colours.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I use Plasma with Breeze Dark theme and icons and adwaita cursors. Boring but works for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Theme: depends. I'm rocking Gnome on my laptop, so something like Otis looks good in it. Kripton or Jasper (what I typically use in XFCE) also look nice regardless of DE IMO. Just depends, but mostly, it's a dark theme so my already meh eyes are spared a flashbang. Very original, I know.

Icons: Gruvbox Plus. Dunno, just always kinda feel it. Guess I like the designs? Also love me some Win10Sur and Reversal Icons.

Cursor: Bibata, typically. Oreo Cursors, if i feel like adding more pazazz and color...which is most of the time, honestly (also helps make my mouse easy to find. Not that my desktop is cluttered it's just nice to immededly know where it's at with a glance).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Icon: WhiteSur

Cursor: Bibata

Theme KDE(+ Lightly): Catppuccin Macchiato teal (Mocha for terminal)

Catppuccin looks nice and it's also available for other apps, I even use Catppuccin for Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm kind of rocking my own colourscheme, based around 4 colours: #467b96 as primary, #889fa7 as secondary, #dfdfdf for white, and a mix of #696969 #282c34 and #343434 for shades of gray and black, with #282c34 being the primary background colour I stick with. I also use some shades of my primary and secondary colours from time to time. It looks really good with the Arc-Darkest GTK theme and Sardi-Flat-Arc as an icon theme. Alternatively, I've looked into papirus with blue as a folder colour, but I prefer Sardi-Flat-Arc.

Edit: Most other colours come from either the doom-one colourscheme or from the terminal colourscheme for Alacritty from ArcoLinux.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The default breeze-dark is good enough for me with papirus dark icons and breeze-neutralcursors.

Edit: oh also I change the accent color to #cc8899 and the window decorations to just the x to close. I use gestures to interact with windows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Nordic dark curser, and compact dark breeze on sway wm

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Icons: Tela Dark

Cursors: default Gnome

Theme: default Adwaita dark theme

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Dark breeze. I'm actively searching for icon alternatives but they are not well integrated with system-color-accent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Dracula for shell/wm theme and papirus-dark for icons

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Not an icon theme exactly, but Milosz Wlazlo's Basket Monsters, which I originally picked up off kdelook sometime around 2007, are old friends that I use to represent my machine's various hard drives. I just find them amusing, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

De: KDE Plasma Theme: Breeze AlphaBlack Cursors: BreezeX Black

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I used the Equilux GTK theme for years but it's been abandoned since 2018 and GNOME has changed a lot since then. I switched to Colloid and it didn't take much to tweak it to my liking, mainly reducing the size of the titlebar and panel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Qogir Theme with square buttons option. I frequently swap between XFCE and Gnome, and it works very nicely on both. I like the big square window buttons, like how windows does it, because it makes it easier to click rather then a small circle like most themes. Also I just like the look better.

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

KDE Theme: Pitch Black

Icons: Korla

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Theme: any Nordic dark theme Icons: Papirus, it just can’t be beat Cursor: Do people actually care enough to change it? They’re all kinda same-y

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Bonny-global

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
  • theme: yaru
  • cursor: quintom snow
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I can't remember my icon pack rn, but I use and love the cursor pack from Mint as I am not a huge fan of the mouse stem. (The one from Peepin is also really great)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The theme I use for my apps is just gtk4 (with gtk4 for gtk3) and Grandiance on wich I put the same color palette than the material you apps on my phone so the feel is consistent between devices

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Xfce with desert teal blue. Icons is Moka Icon theme.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The only correct answer is Qogir Dark with Papirus Icon Theme and breeze cursors

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

do you know Bibata cursors?

i like them more than Breeze, but Breeze is my second favorite of all cursor themes i know

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Bibata kinda covers up everything for me it's really fat imo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Both are great. I really can't decide. I use the white breeze cursor theme for now, but the damn bibata cursors are always tempting me.