Only the name of the theme (Adwaita OS X) is enough to make us skip it. A wannabe Mac theme? Pff!

Gtk theme included- to move move “Show Applications” button from bottom to top in launcher run: gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock show-apps-at-top trueUse this to undo it:gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock show-apps-at-top false. This is a repository that contains Mac OS-themes for the Linux-Gnome desktop made by PaulXFCE (myself) These are high end and thoroughly developed GTK-themes for the gnome desktop that interprets the mac OS themes to the gnome-environment.-NEW Updated the gnome versions to gnome 3.36, and added new matching shell themes.

Isn’t kinda weird? From the one side people are blaming GNOME for copying some of key aspects of Mac OS X, and from the other side, OS X is the favorite proprietary desktop of many Gnomers.

Xenlism is a theme inspired by Elementary OS’s window manager theme. So minimal in fact, the Gnome bar is completely transparent. This theme is clearly intended to aide in turning Gnome Shell into something similar to Elementary’s Pantheon desktop environment.

• All themes present should work on any Gnome 3 setup, Ubuntu or not. The themes listed here are in no particular order. But before you see the best GNOME themes, you should learn how to install themes in Ubuntu GNOME. You should also know that icons play a huge role in improving the looks of your desktop.
• Yosemite Gtk Theme Yosemite is a Mac OSX like theme for GTK 3, GTK 2 and Gnome-Shell which supports GTK 3 and GTK 2 based desktop environments like Gnome, Pantheon, XFCE, Mate, etc. This theme is based on Arc gtk theme of horst3180.

Matthew Garrett posted, 2 days ago, yet another article (The desktop and the Developer) trying to examine why developers prefer Mac over Free Desktops. Apart from some obvious reasons (yea Mac does many things better, has more and better apps, etc), one from the reasons is the look and feel of Macs, both in hardware and the desktop it self.

My opinion as a Mac user my self (not regularly though) is that Mac’s are a waste of money in many cases. Obviously if you want to use Adobe and Autodesk tools, you go with OS X rather with Windows, but what’s the reason to buy the over-priced Mac box?

Gnome Dark Theme

Running a Hackintosh won’t send you to jail even if you’re violating the Apple EULA that prohibits the installation of Mac OS X in a non-Apple hardware. Court of Justice of the European Union will probably exonerate you since Apple’s EULA violates other European laws, and Apple isn’t really persecuting Hackintosh installations. If they do thought, it might be a very ugly situation, but is a very unlikely scenario to happen.

Notice, that building (for your own use) and distributing (selling) a Hackintosh are two totally different things.

Back To Adwaita OS X

Adwaita OS X (AOSX) is my favorite theme by far, and I think is a theme that everyone who likes the default Adwaita, he/she will like it (AOSX) more!

Unfortunately AOSX suffers from lots of small or big annoyances and my guess is that this is happening mostly because its author (kxmylo) has build the theme using an Ubuntu installation. So I think this theme will work better in Ubuntu GNOME installations.

Adwainta OS X is based of Adwaita, but it looks more professional. Notice the elegant tabs, the noise header bars but also the almost invisible scroll bars. Buttons are smaller than the default Adwaita and this is a plus, while the colors are way much better than the defaults.

AOSX dark variant is simply awesome! Very clean, very slick and I specially love the noisy backgrounds in headers backs!

You could easily use the dark variant as default if you prefer dark themes, but it won’t work everywhere.

Get it!

Notice that the above screens were taken from Fedora 20 with GNOME 3.12, but Adwaita OS X is supposed to look like the following!

If it was bug-free, it would definitely be one of the very best themes around! I hope its author will work further on bugs and port it also for GNOME 3.14!

We’ve established how easy it is to make Ubuntu look like a Mac but theming Linux Mint, the popular Ubuntu-based offshoot, is a little trickier.

But no more.

It’s now possible to make Linux Mint look like a Mac too, and it’s all thanks to a customised version of the uncannily accurate macOS Mojave GTK theme we highlighted a few weeks ago.

So if you long to add some Cupertino styling to the Cinnamon desktop, read on!

Mac Theme for Linux Mint 19

Mac themes for Linux Mint are not new.

But good ones? Well, they have been a bit hard to come by due, in part, to the Cinnamon desktop being based around an older version of GTK, the underlying toolkit that’s used to “draw” the GUI of many apps.

Major compatibility issues and refactoring changes between GTK versions has meant that many popular modern GTK themes were not directly compatible with Linux Mint — and that included crop of clonetastic Mac themes too.

Updated GTK in Linux Mint 19

The recent release of Linux Mint 19 changes the game; ‘Tara’ ships with a newer version of GTK that supports many of the advanced theming capabilities that themes often use.

And ready to take full advantage of the new theming capabilities available to Linux Mint 19 is prolific Linux theme maker PaulXfce.

Paul creates and maintains a bunch of well designed and well made themes for various GTK+ based desktop environments, including GNOME Shell, Budgie and, more relevant to those of you reading this post, Cinnamon.

Having recently raved about his creepily accurate macOS Mojave theme I was thrilled to learn that Paul has made a custom version of his macOS mojave theme available for the Cinnamon desktop.

Not that the task was entirely smooth sailing, as Paul points out:

“This has proven to be a much more difficult thing to do, because of the way Linux Mint uses Muffin as a window-manager, which has some drawbacks (like: Server-Side-Decoration, so no transparency in Nemo, ) and the ‘multitude’ of toolbars that take half the real-estate of the window… Reducing the size of them was my first priority.”

Undeterred, Paul has re-engineered his Mac os theme for Linux Mint, building a new Metacity theme that blends with the rest of the UI while still allowing apps using Client Side Decoration (CSD) to look the part too.

The downside is that, for now, Paul’s excellent Mac os theme only affects the look and feel of applications and app window borders. A Cinnamon desktop theme is not (currently) available (and the Cinnamon Spices website turns up nothing Apple-related).

Gnome Material Theme

Still; the theme is a sterling attempt and well worth trying out — even if only as a novelty. You can download the theme directly from GNOME-Look:

To install, extract the archive file to the hidden ‘.themes’ folder in your Home folder (if you don’t have one, create one).

Mac Theme For Gnome 3 Download

Finally, to apply the theme, Open System Settings > Appearance > Themes and select the theme in both the window-borders and controls section.

More Ways to Make Linux Mint Look like a Mac

If you’re minded to make the Mint desktop more like Mac OS X there are some additional things you can do to curate a Cupertino-style aesthetic on the Cinnamon desktop.

You can move Mint desktop panels easily. Just right-click on an empty section of the panel, choose the ‘Properties’ menu option and, from the settings you see, move the panel from the bottom of the screen to the top.

This makes way for what is surely the most iconic element of the Mac desktop: the dock.

A chunky task bar, the dock puts large app icons and folder shortcuts within reach at the bottom of the screen. There are plenty of Linux docks available but we think that Plank is by far and away the best. You can install Plank on Linux Mint be searching for it in the Software Manager app.

You can add more applications to your Plank dock by dragging a shortcut out of the Mint Menu and dropping it on to the dock. You can even add folders to Plank too!

Other suggestions:

• Change the desktop wallpaper to a Mac background
• Replace the bottom panel with a dock app like Plank
• Install a Mac icon theme for Linux
• Move the bottom panel to the top of the screen
• Install/enable Nemo Preview, analogous to Quick Look
• Install Synapse, Kupfer, Alfred or similar for a Spotlight equivalent

So get started and share your screenshots in the comments.