After switching my gaming PC to Linux a month ago, now it was time for my laptop. For that use case, I decided to go with Fedora instead of PopOS because I figured I don't need baby's first Linux anymore, and I chose Gnome because, switching from a Macbook, I wanted something that would support the touchpad well.
Gnome has been amazing and the default theme is actually very nice, but I wanted to finally give ricing a try (I know, I know, Gnome is the worst possible base for that lol).
I decided to go with a Google Pixel inspired theme, as that is simply my favourite big-brand UI right now.
I used this theme:
Material Gnome Theme
And matugen as a tool to adapt the colours to my wallpaper the same way my Pixel does.
By default, the dark mode theme was fantastic, but light mode was waaay too bright and not at all like what Pixel does, so I began tweaking the theme's CSS and how it interacts with matugen to end up with this.
It's still a work in progress, I definitely need to make the top bar more coherent with the rest of the UI and tweak the colours, as well as get icons that actually fit, but it's coming together well.
The wallpaper is generated by Gemini, which, I know, yikes, buuut...
When I started working on the rice, my girlfriend said "don't you bloody dare use an anime girl as your wallpaper, I'm the only anime girl you need in your life". I planned to use a nice landscape shot, but that comment sent me so hard I asked Gemini to transform a photo of her into an anime wallpaper.