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The window, title bar and its controls such as button, check boxes, etc.

GTK theme, for changing the look of applications.

Cursor theme, which changes the look of the mouse cursor in all its different states.For example the application icons, but also the directory and file icons. Icon theme, for customizing the icons.For changing the look and feel of your beloved GNOME desktop environment, you can tweak four things: Just like extensions enable you to customize the functionality of your GNOME desktop environment, themes make it possible for you to change the appearance of your GNOME desktop environment. Consequently, an wealth of third-party extensions are developed and maintained by the community, enabling you to fine-tune the behavior of the GNOME desktop environment, to your personal liking and preferred work flow. Instead, it allows the functionality of the desktop environment to be extended by anyone through extensions. It definitely does not offer as many settings to change, compared to KDE Plasma. At first, it might take some getting used to and you could feel restricted in your accustomed work flow.

By default it offers a minimalistic get-out-of-your-way type desktop environment. KDE Plasma gives you a more traditional desktop layout with start menu, combined with tons of settings to configure the desktop environment to your liking.

And that’s fine because one of the benefits of Linux is that you can use whatever you want. They are wonderfully different, resulting in a bit of a polarization among Linux desktop users. The GNOME desktop environment, together with KDE Plasma, have the largest user base in Linux land. You’ll learn where you can download themes and how to manually install a GNOME icon, cursor, GTK and Shell theme. Furthermore, you can tweak the look-and-feel by installing different GNOME themes. The idea is that you extend the functionality of the GNOME desktop though extensions to make it fit your preferred work flow. Don’t be fooled though, because that is by design. Out-of-the-box the GNOME desktop environment might strike you as minimalistic.