I think some of the first things to change should be the icons: "start-here" (the Ubuntu logo), and the window decoration icons (close, max, min). They should use system wide icons, rather than Unity-specific icons. The Ubuntu logo can just reference "start-here" icon, or similar, and the window decoration should extract icons from the Window Manager theme.
The next things to implement should be the GTK+ theme's settings for the panel: transparency, BG colour, BG image, font settings, etc This will also make Unity more portable to other distros, and more customizable like gnome-shell. Regarding the Launcher, you may be able to use some features of GTK designed for gnome-shell, or GTK may accept some polarimeters designed for Unity specifically - so theme designers could specify different properties to allow the same theme to be used both for Unity, GNOME- shell and GNOME2. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663524 Title: Launcher & Panel does not respect GTK theme -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
