Faience Themes and Faience/Faenza icons for Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/Linux Mint

Faience GTK + Gnome Shell Theme and Faience/Faenza Icon for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 14/13

Faience is light and cool theme for GTK and GnomeShell, Faience icon theme is based on Faenza and include GTK3, GTK2, Metacity and Gnome-Shell themes. Faience icon and theme match with each other and looks cool on desktop.

What's new in this theme update:

• GTK3: transitions on buttons are disabled to speed up the rendering of the theme when switching from one window to another and avoid memory leaks on some distros
• GS: add a background on the dash launcher which make it more usable with the great 'dash to dock' extension
• New Faience-Ocre (for Gnome-Shell) and Faience-Claire (for Unity) GTK2, GTK3 and metacity themes
• GTK3: fixed the background colour of Nautilus canvas items when the right-click menu is displayed
• GTK3: added animations to buttons
• GTK3: improved the overall look of Gnome Documents
• GTK3: removed the stripes on progressbars
• GS: new design for modal dialogs and GDM
• GS: updated assets to match better the GTK3 widgets
• GTK2: removed the 1-pixel border along the vertical scrollbars for maximized windows (the problem persists with GTK3 applications).

To install Faience theme and Faience/Faenza icons in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

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

That's it

Source: tiheum