Introduction to Themes
A theme is a group of coordinated settings that specifies the visual
appearance of a part of the GNOME Desktop. Users can choose themes to change
the appearance of the GNOME Desktop.
A theme contains settings that affect different parts of the GNOME Desktop,
as follows:
- Controls
The controls setting for a theme determines the visual
appearance of windows, panels, and applets. The controls setting also determines
the visual appearance of the GNOME-compliant interface items that appear on
windows, panels, and applets, such as menus, icons, and buttons. Some of the
controls setting options that are available are designed for special accessibility
needs. Users can choose an option for the controls setting from the Controls tabbed section in the Theme
preference tool.
- Window frame
The window frame setting for
a theme determines the appearance of the frames around windows only. Users
can choose an option for the window frame setting from the Window
Border tabbed section in the Theme preference
tool.
- Icon
The icon setting for a theme determines the appearance of
the icons on panels and the desktop background. Users can choose an option
for the icon setting from the Icons tabbed section in
the Theme preference tool.
