This will just be a short topic on how to skin ubuntu and get it looking a little sweeter than the standard orange look. Basically, will find all that you ever need, including heaps of themes, wallpapers and icon sets at on gnome-look.
However, if you are like me and just download a theme for, in my case GTK 2.., and expect it to install, then get ready for a suprise 
. In most cases it was just a matter of opening “Appearance” under System -> Preferences -> Appearance, then dragging the theme tar-ball onto the theme section and away it goes. But if you are like me, then you may also want the icons that go with the theme to be applied as well? Some of the doco that I read suggested to copy the icon folder to /home/you/.icons. Then they would just show up in the appearance app under Customize -> icons. But every time I tried that nothing happened 
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What i ended up finding was a few short commands that will get you started, at the very least:
- sudo apt-get install gnome-themes-extras
sudo apt-get install gnome-extra-icons
sudo apt-get install gdm-themes
Between these three commands you will be automatically provided with a new list of themes, icon sets and even login pages.
I can really take no credit for this find, as the instructions came straight from Kris at Geekybits. So a big thanks to chris for putting this together for us 
