Comment 199 for bug 527458

Sorry for getting off-topic. I just cannot stay calm reading everywhere that Ubuntu gets ruined. Me too, I liked it out-of-the-box from Breezy to Jaunty. For Natty I recommend the following 5 commands, and if anyone knows a cheap way to bring back tooltips, please share it! Hope this helps to keep skilled people from leaving Ubuntu.

sudo apt-get install gdebi synaptic gtkperf ttf-droid

sudo apt-get remove unity-common ubuntuone-client overlay-scrollbar

sudo sh -c "echo >/etc/X11/Xsession.d/99disable-overlay-scrollbars 'export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0'"

gconftool-2 --set --type string /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager gnome-wm

cat <<EOF >>~/.gtkrc-2.0
style "default-style"
{
  GtkWindow::resize-grip-height = 0
  GtkWindow::resize-grip-width = 0
}
class "GtkWidget" style "default-style"
EOF

And note that Gnome theme "Dust Sand" with font "Droid" is about 50% faster than Nattys default (according to gtkperf).

PS: I don't like aubergines either.