Linux Dummies 9th

Chapter 4: Examining the GNOME Desktop
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The desktop theme
A theme is a named group of settings that controls the overall way objects
appear on your desktop — for example, check boxes, radio buttons, folder
icons, and color schemes for the windows. Ubuntu includes nine themes —
some of them high-contrast for people with visual impairments.
The default theme set by Ubuntu is called Human. It produces the relaxing
orange window theme on the desktop. Select any theme to test it out.
If you don’t like the theme you’ve selected, you can easily change it by selecting
a different theme from the Appearance Preferences dialog box.
After you select a theme, you can make additional changes to the look and
feel of it. Click the Customize button to open the Customize Theme dialog
box, as shown in Figure 4-5.
Figure 4-5:
Customize
a desktop
theme.
The Customize Theme dialog box allows you to change the appearance of
individual items such as check boxes and radio buttons, windows, windows
borders, icons used for folders and documents, and the mouse pointer.