How would I make Ubuntu like this?

I think that looks really good. Is it hard to make Ubuntu look like that?

 

It should be very simple. Just grab the wallpaper, and you're half way done.

For the taskbars, it's a simple, usually ten pixel wide, gradient. If you can find a full size screenshot, I could pull the texture for you. Then you just right click your panels, and choose that gradient image as a background. Voila!

The icon set can, in all likelyhood, be found on www.gnome-look.org and they should also have some other brilliant ideas for themeing.

 

Uhg...trying to go for a Vista- esque look?

 

I don't think it looks like Vista at all, aside from the color black as a choice for the panels. Personally I like the Vista window theme; here is a screen shot of my desktop:

 

without a window open, it's hard to tell, but you might check out the neutronium theme on http://www.gnome-look.org

the icon theme is "dropline NEU"

 

I agree with BigV... my initial guess is that the GTK theme is called Neutronium (or a variant of it). It's a good theme, but I'm not a huge fan of the all black look...

 

Just play around with the settings on the taskbars enough or test out themes.

Like Lysander stated, your half done with the wallpaper.

Icons are also easy to change and install.

Very easy task IMO.

 

Oh... and the wallpaper, I think it's called "Ubuntu Glass"

 

Cool! Thanks guys. I think I might get my old computer up and running to try Ubuntu on..and make it look really neat like this one does..much better then the standard Ubuntu colors in my opinion.

 

Cool background!!!! That is what we call a reall glass!

Now i wonder if in any case for any OS can we make a window like real glass just like that in the ubuntu background "only with the window" if you get what i mean. I mean windows in Vista and Ubuntu and the Aero is much more like transparent plastic rather than "real glass" effect, again just like that background logo. can someone please sketch and post it here... pls... lol.

 

What do you really need for a transparent environment? To my experience, that bring desktop mess if you are not so use to it. If every stacked window is transparent, text will be mixed together, and you won't read anything.

 

lol, thats true @ Aero transparent plastic.

I think don't see what your talking about happening just yet, and it would probably have high requirements as a minimum to run (higher than aero), like a Good graphics card, processor, ram, etc:

 

that also came into my mind. but we can always blurrify the text area a bit and the titlebar being real glass and the borders. ok, i'll try to do a sketch in photoshop if i can. lol.

 

Yep. Current interfaces are like transparent plastics - all of them. semi-glass i presume. i will try to sketch one tonight... if i can. lols.

 

That "real glass" look is a side-effect of ray-traced rendering, which is really impractical in real-time. That's why Aero and Beryl look like "plastic", because GPU's aren't made to render ray-traced style graphics. They do a rasterization style. Look at Jalf's post in the graphics forum for more info on normal rendering, and look up POV-Ray for info on ray-tracing type rendering