Ubunturd!
I wish I had a clue of what the designs behind Ubuntu were thinking – the interface was already ugly and now they want to go uglier?
As I mentioned in the comments over on CyberNet, this is one reason why I am personally looking a lot more at linuxmint.com and the like.
N arguments about the terrible themes. Try this and email me if the installation of the themes ends up a bit wonky. Some are easier than others.
http://www.gnome-look.org/
Meant “No arguments” above^^
I have Ubuntu running and I simply replaced the theme with a nice Mac OS X theme