You can just clone all three repos on GitHub and install them. It’s really easy
You don’t need neither the PPA nor the snap
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Where do we report bugs with the snap?
My Gnome snaps i.e; calculator, sys monitor, characters etc. are all transparent?
ahh, thank you 
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For people interested into the snap-compatibility progress with communitheme snap: Snap application and snap themes - snapd - snapcraft.io.
Basically, the remaining bits for it to work is that we need to have snap applications updated to declare the correct plugs. Snapd is supposed to automatically download the gtk-common-themes snap which now contains the compatible bits for communitheme.
I have updated the instructions on PR and already in project README.md (Snap application and snap themes - snapd - snapcraft.io). Just note that until the snap apps are updated, the result won’t be visible. This is more a FYI to keep you updated that progress is made 
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I wanted an orange circle for the “x” from day one, but, now it’s gone… it looks quite a bit better without it! I wouldn’t even bother having the orange circle for hover-over, tbh.
You guys were right to try this and I think it’s an improvement.
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Well, I miss it…
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I think I also miss it, maybe a hover over makes more sense so it’s less attention-grabbing but scrapping it entirely seems a bit too bold to me. I might upgrade to 18.04 tomorrow (we’re only a week away from final freeze…) and then I’ll grab the Communitheme and see how I feel!
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Yeah I like this feature too, so to that end I use the ‘Adapta-Light-Blue’ theme. What I like 'bout Gnome is it’s customability. 
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As it stands, I think the double highlight is a bit weird. I would be fine with just the circle at hover-over. That would make the behaviour different for one button, but it is already, and I think it would be cleaner than having a highlight-in-a-highlight, IMO. I don’t feel very strongly about it. To be honest it might be nice if “orange x buttons” was a toggle in tweaks 
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Window-Controls
As i mentioned in my post above IMHO the window-controls could get some love. I took some time with gimp and some pixels and made some mockups i want to share with you. They only represent ideas and would have to be refined by real designers.
IMHO the window-controls could be a tiny bit bigger and the maximize-symbol could get a soft roundness as it is a bit edgy compared to the rest of the theme.
I made the maximize and close symbol a tiny bit bigger (by one pixel on each side) to improve visibility. Especially strong nearsighted Users should benefit a little bit from this. And added a little roundness to the maximize-symbol so it looks more “suru” or whatever we understand under “suru”.
Especially the minimize-symbol got my attention. I would like it to fit more to the UI. So when you minimize on ubuntu the window does not get minimized to a bar on the bottom of the screen but to a dock to the left. So how could this be simply shown by the window-controls?
Version 1:
The easiest way would be to simply use a vertical line instead of a horizontal line. Why? On default settings the dock is vertical. It would look like this:
Pro:
It fits more to the UI than a horizontal line because the dock is vertical.
Contra:
It could be too unusual for some users that are using ubuntu already for a long time.
It looks lazy and boring.
It looks like the letter I. Does I O X mean something?
Version 2:
A flash could show much better what is going to happen to the window when i click this symbol. So i ended up with this:
Or little bit bigger:
Pro:
It shows clearly what is going to happen to the window.
Contra:
It could look not simple enough.
Version 3 (this is maybe my personal favourite):
Pro:
It shows clearly and simple that the window is going to be minimized to the left when clicked.
Contra:
It looks to much like “going back” which can be misinterpreted.
What do you think? Of course they can stay as they are. I was thinking about new users. By “new” i mean people who never used a computer. Old people, children or people in development-countries who started using a computer just recently. These are users who could see window-controls for the first time and would need them to be self explanatory. This is for us or former windows-users not necessary. Thats why they could stay as they are. But isn’t ubuntu for all humans? 
@madsrh @luxamman @snwh and others who could be interested: I would like to hear your thoughts. Think about this or to the bin?
EDIT: the mockups looks much sharper on my computer. I think they lost a bit of quality because they got uploaded. Maybe it is necessary to click on them to see it in better quality. But anyway… I hope you get the idea.
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I think you’re right that “<” is too close to “back”. But I like the vertical line! It’s meaningful but very simple. That sequence of three glyphs, which are all basic shapes made of plain straight lines, could easily become iconic to Ubuntu.
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To fit that model, I’d make the middle button a completely plain square though - zooming in it looks a bit curved? Hard to tell on phone!
I have the dock at the bottom though? 
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Then for you the vertical line can be a path leading down so it’s not as awkward as something that unambiguously means “left”?
If the minimise button indicates a direction, it should probably be the default one for the desktop… or is there a direction-neutral alternative?
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The current conventional underscore for minimize is all it should be. No need to reinvent the obvious, the default window animation helps with the sometimes hidden side bar.
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Hmhmhm but what if the people move their dock to the bottom or to the right? It’s doable in the regular settings app 
I love the current ones. Everyone knows these icons. I have this odd argument right here: “Would your mother/father know what that new icons mean?”
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Obvious for you and me but not for new users.
When they used a windows computer they will always know what is meant. No matter what icon you use. They would only be new ubuntu-users but not new computer-users.
I would like to quote myself:
At the moment the icon does not represent the default UI of ubuntu but represents what the average computer-user (most times windows-user) is expecting from the UI.
So simply put there are three different ways to handle this:
- Serve the average-user (and windows-user) and keep it how it is.
- Be dedicated to ubuntu and make it original and representing the UI of ubuntu.
- Think about real new users and make it self explanatory.
I think 2 and 3 can be combined but not 1 and 2. IMHO 2 and 3 are the most important because they include the “identity” of ubuntu and accessibility for all possible users. 1 is IMO just plain conservative.
Whilst I have no issue with the current window controls, what about the \/ and /\ style controls as used in 10.04? e.g. 10.04 windows
