Linux Mint 18 Is Getting a Brand New Look
Showing off progress made on the theme in a new blog post, project lead Clement Lefebvre says the new “Mint Y” theme is inspired by recent design trends towards flatter UI elements. It is based off of the (incredibly) popular Arc GTK theme.
Mint users content with the current design do not need to panic, though.
Although the newer, flatter theme is to ship as part of the next major release of the Ubuntu-based Linux distribution it won’t be the default system theme
Sarah will use the familiar ‘Mint X’ by default. ‘Mint Y’ is included as an option.
‘Scared of Changes’
Acknowledging that many are excited about the new design, Lefebvre explains the reasoning on holding back: “We talked about a new theme and we noticed […] that some of you were also scared of the changes this would introduce.”
“We don’t want to change styles just because we think it might “look” better, we’ll provide both styles to you ,” he adds. ”Eventually if the day comes where a huge majority prefer the new theme, then we’ll follow that and start using it as the new default.”
