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We already shared some awesome skins and transformation packs for Windows 7 desktop along with Android theme launchers. Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. This operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.In recent years, special emphasis has been placed on netbooks for lightweight, connected, mobile computing, and on the cloud as a new architecture for data centres. Ubuntu is a pioneer in both fields, with Ubuntu Netbook Edition and Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud setting the standard for easy deployment and management. It is hugely popular on Amazon’s EC2 and Rackspace’s Cloud, and is pre-installed on computers from Dell, Lenovo and other global vendors.

The newly released Ubuntu likes Android 4.0 ICS, shell is known as Ice Cream Shell. It is a Gnome Shell theme that has been based on the default Android 4.0 theme. Here we will go through the process of installing  this theme.

After installing the Roboto font,  followed by the user-theme GNOMEshell extension, from the PPA you can download and extract the Roboto font Ice Cream.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/gnome3 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-extensions-user-theme

If we finish once, hit alt+f2 or log out and log back in to apply the changes.GnomeTweak Tool is essential for applying the Ice Cream Shell. If you do not have the Gnome Tweak Tool installed, then you can grab it from the Ubuntu Software Center or by entering the below Terminal command.

sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool

Turning on the User Themes Extension from Shell Extension is required after launhing the Gnome Tweak Tool. After enabling the user themes extension, head over to the Theme section and select Ice Cream Shell. This will give your Ubuntu Gnome desktop the Android 4.0 ICS look. The below screenshots demonstrate the UI of the Ice Cream Shell.

Instructions in brief:

Step 1: Download, extract the ICS Roboto font and install it.

Step 2: Install the Gnome Tweak Tool.

Step 3: Install the User-Theme GNOME Shell extension by entering the following commands in the Terminal.

“sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-extensions-user-theme”

Step 4: Hit ALT + F2, type R, followed by ENTER or simply log out and log back in for the changes to take effect.

Step 5: Launch the Gnome Tweak Tool and turn on “User Theme Extensions”, from Shell Extensions section.

Step 6: Download and extract the ICS Shell GNOME Shell theme to Home/Username/.Themes folder(create the directory if there is none).

Step 7: Launch the Gnome Tweak Tool and select the “Ice Cream Shell”.

The below screenshots display the UI changes that will be implemented after the installation of the Ice Cream Shell.

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