[oliwarner]

Your problems sound visual more than anything else.

If you use a UI that is themeable, you can tweak it almost anything. If you stick with Unity, you're not going to be able to theme the launcher et al but you can still tweak the windows.

If you want something that looks like a OSX, there are a billion and five theme packs that should get you 90% of the way there without too much fuss. One example:

- http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Adwaita+Cupertino?con...

Just add icons, fonts, etc. It's all fairly simple stuff with a bit of playing.

Eclipse should follow your main GTK theme.

[andthejets]

Yeah agreed. You've replied to all these comments basically saying its not exactly what your looking for but when it comes down to it you can probably make your linux desktop look however you want if you put some time into it. That's really your answer right there, OP. Customize it yourself, I'm sure you can fine tons of guides online.

If you don't want to do that then just use OSX?

[plqa]

I'm not really bothered with trying to make it look like OSX> I just want a more compact UI and I want Eclipse to be more compact so it's actually a joy to use rather than a pain.

I tried several themes before but got nowhere. I'll probably give some more themes a try.