gekosMac (GTK Theme) - Make Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Looks Like Mac OSX!

It's no secret that GNU/Linux community, Gnome developers (especially) are admirers of Apple's Mac OS usability. Although to be honest I haven't used it, but from the screenshots and few videos I've seen, Gnome desktop 2+ version (including the Shell as well) resembles Mac OSX look-n-feel heavily.

And when considering Unity's application dock, windows title buttons to the left-side, wallpaper etc and even Mark Shuttleworth said when asked whether he'd prefer iPhone over Android phones, he said, "Yes!"... so Natty Narwhal is also much closer to OSX.

In that sense if you want to make your GNU/Linux Laptop completely looks like a Mac OSX, then all you gotta do at this point is to install a theme!. Well then you might be interested in a GTK written theme for Gnome called gekosMac.

As you can see with below screenshot, in resembles Leopard and the creator advices you to install Nautilus elementary + the Faenza Mac icon theme after installing the main gekosMac GTK theme as well. Lets install the theme in 11.04 Natty Narwhal first.

1. Open your Terminal and enter the below command.

sudo apt-get install aurora
sudo apt-get install gtk2-engines-aurora

2. Use the below command to install Nautilus Elementary (remember, this is not necessary, but Elementary looks more like the OSX fm).

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:am-monkeyd/nautilus-elementary-ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade 

also make sure to restart Nautilus. To do that, use the below command.

nautilus -q

3. Now the final part. Lets install the FaenzaMac icon theme. Use the below command for that.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install faenza-icon-theme

If you don't like the buttons on the panel, then the developer advices that you do the following (quoting himself)...

#######IF YOU USE UNITY#########

Look at buttons in panel. You do not like this. You can fix that!!!!

0) All that is written to it except 4 step
1)You need to open terminal and write command

gksu nautilus

2)than go to /usr/share/themes
3) Backup Ambiance(copy to some place or add to archive)
4)extract Ambiance.tar.gz that you download
5)Replace folder that you extract from archive (delete Ambiance at /usr/share/themes and copy extract Ambiance theme to them)

THAT ALL Then Logot and login :)

That's it. Now you've successfully converted your Unity (also works on LinuxMint as well) to Mac OSX!. Enjoy.  

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Google Chrome Canary is Finally Available for Apple's Mac Users!

What the heck is Chrome Canary?

Fair question ;-). It goes back into the history actually. Back in the day when gold miners used to carry canaries with them as a way of "measuring" poisonous gas leaks which is still one of the main risks concerning mining in general. Anyhow, for some reason if there's a poisonous gas leak, then the poor bird would die before anything happen to the humans... so the miners used the bird as a way of evaluating danger, in a way.

A "real" Canary!...

That's exactly what you get with the Google Chrome Canary version. Google or the Chrome developers use the Canary edition as a way evaluating the stability of the browser before officially releasing it. This is the first time it has been released for Mac OSX users!, and anyone who wants to download the "Canary" version should be aware of the fact that, it's actually could be unstable than the official daily developer builds as well.

Yellowish logo ....

But if you're interested in "testing" or getting the cutting-edge technologies in web browsing... and a fan of Chrome, then Mac geeks :P, this is your moment!.

But...

Again remember, these builds aren't even tested manually before releasing, although not all the time but there could be bugs or especially major security related bugs!. So before downloading it, please take those things to account.

Anyhow, unless you're going to use the Chrome Canary in Mac OSX to store your passwords or log-in information, only going to "browse the web" then those concerns may be slightly lower. Also, once installed the Chrome Canary will get automatic updates as well. So if the developers discover new bugs and fix them... then the browser will fetch them automatically.

So before giving it a try... make sure you understand the risks and good luck.

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