Window decorations
The appearance of window borders, titlebars and buttons.
You will need an engine and a theme.
KDE Style
The elements of a graphical user interface, such as buttons, scrollbars, tabs, and menus.
You will need an engine and a theme.
In this case - QtCurve,Emerald
The QtCurve is in the official Ubuntu repositories. The QtCurve engine can be installed with the package: qtcurve
Description: Unified window decoration for KDE and GTK+ (meta-package)
This package installs all packages related with QtCurve: *
kde-style-qtcurve * kwin-style-qtcurve * gtk2-engines-qtcurve *
qtcurve-i18n . QtCurve is a set of widget styles for KDE and GTK+.
It provides a consistent look between KDE and GTK+ applications,
which is easy on the eyes and visually pleasing. Homepage:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=40492
The Smaragd (Emerald for KDE): http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/?content=125162
Description: Smaragd is a window decoration engine for the KDE window
manager KWin. It allows you to use Emerald theme files (from
Compiz/Beryl) with KDE SC 4.
The Smaragd can be found from the PPA repositories: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas?name_filter=smaragd
Download the deb and install it.
Ice cream Theme
Download - unpack the tar package.
Extract the Ice cream QtCurve.emerald to the $HOME/.emerald/theme.
KDE System Settings > Workspace Appearance > Window Decorations > Smaragd
KDE System Settings > Application Appearance > Style > Widget style: QtCurve -> Configure -> Import QtCurve Settings File
It has a detailed guide, where are you stuck? Essentially, you download the files provided and you move them to themes and icons directories so ubuntu can recognize them as such. You can use a tool like Ubuntu Tweak to change to this theme.
Also be aware that this theme was submitted at 2004 so I am not sure it works on newer versions of linux.
Best Answer
You can change your Ubuntu theme by going into
System Settings --> Appearance
Your custom themes are present in the
~/.themes
directory ( and in/usr/share/themes/
unless you have not installed it as root user ) with their own name.Simply deleting the folder (name of the theme you want to delete) will remove the theme.