The Clearlooks Compact theme was released just a few days ago, and it already is the highest rated theme at gnome-look.org, out of more than a thousand. I guess the compactness really hit the nerve of lots of Linux users.
This encouraged me to do some further updates, I have incorporated lots of several tips and [...]

Compact theme just got more compact, now it switches to 16x16 icons which saves quite a bit of space for the buttons. More info here.

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I have been using Ubuntu for quite a while now, but one thing I really dislike is that all the themes are huge space wasters compared to Windows XP. This finally got me angry enough to create a customized version of the Clearlooks theme that tries to be very compact but still maintain its beautiful [...]