Coloured themes for Ubuntu "Ambiance" era

[lah7]

GTK2 had a facility where you could pick colours for the theme. 🎨 This was lost in GTK3 due to the rewrite of the theme engine. Users that wanted different colours had to find a theme with colours they like, modify the theme, or do a search & replace for all colour values.

Interestingly, in the past couple of years, distros/environments have started to offer accent colours again:

• Ubuntu MATE & Linux Mint in their Welcome applications
• KDE Plasma added accent colour to their Colours settings.

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Today, if you're looking to restore Ubuntu's Ambiance appearance from around 2010-2015, ubuntu-mate-colours should satisfy this. Ambiant-MATE and Radiant-MATE were a continuation of Ambiance and Radiance themes, optimised for MATE. This unofficial colours project takes those themes and replaces the MATE green with many colourful flavours.

📦 It's only packaged for Ubuntu and as a snap, but as they're themes/icons, you can grab them from the release notes and save them in ~/.local/share/themes & ~/.local/share/icons.

Inspired by RAVEfinity's Ambiance & Radiance Colors when I used them in Ubuntu MATE 16.04.