I've never really liked Ambiance, mostly because of the garish orange default and huge fonts and icons that come default. This seems to be the default for all Linux desktops for some reason I can't understand...huge panels in GNOME and Xfce(I've never used KDE), huge icons, and large default texts.<p>Elegant Gnome[1] is a much, much saner and better theme IMO. Beautiful default font (Droid Sans+Droid Sans Mono), darker/more tastefully muted colors, Elegant-Aw0ken icons built off of Aw0ken[2] icons and the original Token[3] Icon Set by ~brsev. Also, it is a much more complete theme as compared to most themes for GTK. Full support for icons, GDM, and lots of edgecases. Really looks like the pinnacle of theming so far on Linux.<p>ElementaryOS[4] is a fork of Ubuntu that has spawned a lot of projects like Dexter, Nautilus Elementary, and Postler. Good to see more effort being spent on better UX and polish in Linux. I agree that Ubuntu/Canonical has come a long way since the days I was using Dapper on the desktop, but the paper still has to be pushed.<p>I personally use a mixture of Elegant Gnome when I use Gnome and a custom Zenburn theme with Xmonad.<p>Great theme, I'll recommend to friends of mine who use the default theme.<p>[1]: <a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Elegant+Gnome+Pack?content=127826" rel="nofollow">http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Elegant+Gnome+Pack?co...</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/AwOken+-+Awesome+Token+icon+set?content=126344" rel="nofollow">http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/AwOken+-+Awesome+Toke...</a><p>[3]: <a href="http://brsev.deviantart.com/art/Token-128429570" rel="nofollow">http://brsev.deviantart.com/art/Token-128429570</a>
My version[1] of wombat[2] is in the next version of emacs, if anyone likes that color scheme. It's dark, so I don't know how well it fits with Ambiance, but I thought I'd plug it here anyway...<p>edit: Oh, and very nice theme, by the way! I used a similar one before when I was in a light theme phase, will save this one in case I flip again.<p>[1]: <a href="http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=23adf12db42ea178db19480e11b1ed7a3e3229a4" rel="nofollow">http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=23adf1...</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://dengmao.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/vim-color-scheme-wombat/" rel="nofollow">http://dengmao.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/vim-color-scheme-wom...</a>
It's funny that I haven't used Visual Studio for real work in years, but starting with it in college means that there is One True Highlighting scheme as far as I'm concerned: white background, black text, keywords are blue, constants (including strings) are red, and comments are green. Using anything else feels like sleeping in someone else's bed.