This is more for my benefit than anyone else’s. So, it’s now early 2009, and after a bout of tweaking how my desktop looks, I’m pretty happy with it. 
That’s the DarkRoom Gtk theme and my own Prelude-dark Metacity theme (a darkened brown version of the Prelude Metacity theme that Thomas Thurman made for me), with the gorgeous Smokikon icon set, all application, desktop, and document fonts set to Salem 8 point (from the ttf-arabeyes package), with subpixel smoothing turned on, and my simple-but-I-like-it inspired-by-the-Mac-bootsplash desktop background*. So now when I buy a new laptop (it’s gonna be the Dell M1330 with Ubuntu on it unless anyone comes up with a reason why not before the end of the month), I’ll know how to make it look like this.
Thanks for the cool theme. In the past I have always just run the defaults but tried this on a whim and love it! Looks great on my Dell M1330… speaking of which; I can’t think of a reason “why not”. The only issue I have with the 1330 is the volume on the built in microphone is very low. Other than that it works brilliantly and now, thanks to you, looks great too!
Cheers
I have the m1330, it’s a great laptop, don’t break your habits and go for the nvidia graphics. The 8400GM is defective, it runs too hot and breaks. Dell cranked up the fan to compensate which is annoying and battery sapping.