NO STOP

This beautiful and clean look comes with Elementary theme and icons, the Elementary Nautilus variant, which allow to remove menu and introduce some cleanup in the file browser, and the Hide Menu extension for Firefox.

Let's start with Elementary theme: what is needed is to install Elementary and then choose the theme in System | Preferences | Appeareance.

There are two ways to install the theme:

The easy way:

From a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementaryart/ppa


sudo apt-get update


sudo apt-get install elementary-icon-theme elementary-theme elementary-wallpapers

To get the terminal, press CTRL+ALT+T or launch it from the Application menu, Accessories.

The hard way:

From Applications menu, choos Software Sources.

Now fro the menu, Edit | Software Sources

Now choose the Other Software tab, press add and finally insert:

ppa:elementaryart/ppa

Now after reloading the sources, elementary theme, icons and wallpapers will be available.

In the end

Just choose the theme from the System | Preferences | Appeareance

 Elementary Nautilus Variant

Same way as before, here is the code for the plain

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:am-monkeyd/nautilus-elementary-ppa


sudo apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

This means the repository to add is: ppa:am-monkeyd/nautilus-elementary-ppa and there is nothing to install, just perform a regular system update and upgrade. 

Remove Firefox Menu

With this extension and live happy. 

I just upgraded my system to Ubuntu Maverick, that will become Ubuntu
10.10 in october. While it will ship with the default window manager,
Gnome Shell is available from official repository so is super easy to
install it from the Software Center.

Gnome Shell is the next generation window manager and you can see here
two screenshot. Pressing the SUPER button (or, sic, the windows
button..) you can access the "Activities" view. This view is
activable also going to the top-left of the screen with the mouse
pointer.

On the top left there is the search field: writing there you look for
the applications. Or you can press the "applications" button to
explode them all (last screenshot). Under those elements, always on
the left, there are the open applications, some notable folders and
disks and the recent documents.
The center of the screen is the actual desktop, which is temporary
reduced reduced to left space to the activities pane and to the area
to switch from one desktop to another, at the bottom.

(download)

Click here to download:

Gnome_Shell_on_Ubuntu_Maverick.zip (1.51 MB)

The second shot shows the desktop in it's normal size, which has just
a black bar at the top. Let's dig into the top bar. "Activities" show
the activities view we just talked about. Then there is the logo and
title of the actually open window, that is no more on the application
bar. Then the clock on the center and on the right the system tray
that is showing: tweetdeck, skype, tomboy notes, the Empathy multi
chat instant messanger, the wifi connection and the system menu.

Please also note that the opened application is the last nightly build

of Firefox 4, feafuring tabs on top, the four button interface (back,
forward, stop/reload, home), the search box and the location field on
the right and the button to toggle the tab sets view on the very right
of the tabs.

Great stuff. The gnome shell is great in functionality, polished and
faster compared to Compiz, at least in perceived smoothness of the
user interface.

To activate the gnome shell window manager in Ubuntu Maverick, just
install it from the Software Center and run "gnome-shell --replace"
from the command runner, that is activated with ALT-F2.
Ah, the command runner in gnome shell is amazing, what I always dreamed.

From now on Gnome Shell is my default window manager.