The “Break it Down” Blog

For the GNOME users out there moving to the new GNOME 2.20, you’ll probably notice the new “Gummy” look and feel that essentially boils down to a polished ClearLooks theme:

Original ClearLooks

New ‘Gummy’ Theme

For the folks in the group that love the new theme except the crappy gradient on the tabs, Marco Barisione has put together a great blog entry on how a customized .gtkrc-2.0 file will do the trick for you, getting rid of the gradient on the tabs, but keeping things looking sexy.

You will want to check out the whole post, but to sum it up, you do the following:

1. Create a .gtkrc-2.0 file in your $HOME dir if you haven’t done so already.
2. Add the following to it:

style "my-clearlooks-notebook" = "clearlooks-notebook"
{
    engine "clearlooks"
    {
        style = CLASSIC
    }
}

class "GtkNotebook" style : highest "my-clearlooks-notebook"