Please explain why there is such chaos in the structure of topics at https://www.gnome-look.org ? I wanted to just put the topic (Debian 8, Mate) and ran into problems.

Some of the themes are distributed as .deb packages, which greatly simplifies working with them.

Other themes are distributed with a .theme file, which allows you to simply move the theme directory to ~/.themes/ and use it. However, this method does not always provide a workable topic. Example - ambient-mate

 Ambiant-MATE ├── gtk-2.0 ├── gtk-3.0 ├── index.theme ├── metacity-1 └── unity

Others use a structure with a gtkrc file. Example - material-sweet

 material-sweet-theme ├── gtk-2.0 │  ├── Arrows │  ├── Buttons │  ├── Check-Radio │  ├── Combo │  ├── Frame-Gap │  ├── gtkrc │  ├── Handles │  ├── Lines │  ├── ListHeaders │  ├── Menu-Menubar │  ├── Others │  ├── Panel │  ├── ProgressBar │  ├── Scale │  ├── Scrollbars │  ├── Shadows │  ├── Spin │  ├── styles │  ├── Tabs │  └── Toolbar └── xfce-notify-4.0 └── gtkrc

Some are generally incomprehensible, with which I did not understand even after the readme . Example - hedera

 Hedera-master/ ├── COPYING ├── debian │  ├── changelog │  ├── compat │  ... │  └── source ├── LICENSE ├── MANUAL │  ├── Chromium │  ... │  ├── readme.md │  └── WINE ├── readme.md ├── rpm │  └── buildrpm.sh └── THEME ├── albert ├── backgrounds ├── color-schemes ... ├── wallpapers ├── xfce4 └── yakuake

Why is there no uniformity? And how to use the theme, for example, from the second example?

Similar problems with icons and fonts

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    The fact is that each theme is created for one or more desktop environments (Gnome, XFCE, etc.). Each environment has its own rules for themes and themes in different shells may be displayed differently. To use a theme that appears crooked, you can change the desktop environment.

    • Yes, but the resource is dedicated to the themes of gnome and other skins not mentioned. - while1pass
    • Still, there are different versions of Gnome shells, for example, Gnome Shell, Gnome 2, etc. - teqwry