New Minty Freshness (GTK Theme) Version Brings Nautilus Elementary Support, Many Other Improvements

Minty Freshness is a new theme created by Skies Of Azel, the Orta theme developer, especially designed for Linux Mint Debian Edition (the theme could become the default LMDE theme).

A new Minty Freshness (an amazing theme similar to Orta but which uses Murrine) version was uploaded to its GIT page today bringing Nautilus Elementary support and invisible panel handles when the panel isn't expanded (that's how I use it - see the screenshot below -, so I'm pretty excited about this) as well as many other improvements:

Complete changelog:

• Gdm improvements
• Panel handles are now invisible when the panel isn't expanded
• GtkPathBar now shares the nautilus style for breadcrumbs
• New treeview highlight
• New iconview highlight
• New expanders
• New check and radio box buttons
• Some notebook fixes for non gtk applications
• Gimp improvements
• Inkscape improvements
• Nautilus Elementary support
• Banshee Wikipedia and LastFm toggle buttons are now properly skinned
• Mintinstall pathbar now follows the window gradient

Install Minty Freshness in Ubuntu / Debian / Linux Mint

I've used Skies Of Azel's debianization to create a .deb for the latest Minty Freshness so it's now very easy to install it in Ubuntu / Debian / Linux Mint.

1. To be able to install the Minty Freshness deb, you'll firstly have to install Mint X Icons (this is a required dependency for the deb) - download Mint X Icons it from HERE.

2. Then you can download and install Minty Freshness.deb

If you're not using a Debian-based Linux distro, you can install Minty Freshness following the steps in our initial Minty Freshness post.

Update: Minty Freshness is now available in the WebUpd8 themes PPA.

Thanks to Skies Of Azel for the tip!

Minty Freshness: New LMDE Theme Based On Orta, Created By SkiesOfAzel

It appears that SkiesOfAzel, the Orta theme developer was contacted by a LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) developer to create a similar theme for LMDE and the initial result can already be tested (not just on LMDE - you can use it on any Linux distribution obviously). If you thought Orta is amazing, wait until you see the new Minty Freshness (that's the name of the new Orta modified for LMDE):

The result, even though shares a lot of similarities with Orta, it "uses a lot less pixmaps and lets murrine do its thing" says SkiesOfAzel.

The theme is still work in progress so there is no configuration tool like for the original Orta (so you can't modify how the tabs look, change the panel color and so on) but it looks great already!

Install Minty Freshness

Just because the theme was created for Linux Mint Debian Edition, it doesn't mean it won't work in other Linux Distributions. Simply follow the installation steps below.


To install Minty Freshness, you'll need to get it via GIT as it's not available in any repository yet.

1. Install GIT:

sudo apt-get install git-core

2. Download Minty Freshness via GIT:

cd
git clone http://github.com/SkiesOfAzel/mint-x-theme.git

3. Install the theme - you can install it either system-wide (available for all users - including applications you open as root, or for your own user only):

- system-wide:

cd
sudo cp -r mint-x-theme/usr/share/themes/Minty-Freshness /usr/share/themes/

- your user only:

cd
cp -r mint-x-theme/usr/share/themes/Minty-Freshness ~/.themes/

Update: Minty Freshness is now available in the WebUpd8 themes PPA.

Thanks to LinuxMint Life for the news; Second screenshot credits: SkiesOfAzel