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Ubuntu 26.04 Will Look More Like Vanilla GNOME Shell

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Dec 10, 2025

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Quoting: Ubuntu 26.04 Will Look More Like Vanilla GNOME Shell - OMG! Ubuntu —

The Yaru theme team — try saying that several times in a row — is undertaking a refactor of their GNOME Shell stylesheet (“theme”) ahead of the next long-term support release, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, which is due out in April and will include GNOME 50.

Rather than continuing to maintain a customised stylesheet for GNOME Shell, it will instead use the default theme and apply the changes it wants over the top (without modifying it directly).

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