material-shell VS materia-theme

Compare material-shell vs materia-theme and see what are their differences.

material-shell

A modern desktop interface for Linux. Improve your user experience and get rid of the anarchy of traditional desktop workflows. Designed to simplify navigation and reduce the need to manipulate windows in order to improve productivity. It's meant to be 100% predictable and bring the benefits of tools coveted by professionals to everyone. (by material-shell)

materia-theme

A Material Design theme for GNOME/GTK based desktop environments (by nana-4)
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material-shell materia-theme
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7,225 3,379
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5.4 0.0
4 months ago about 1 year ago
TypeScript SCSS
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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material-shell

Posts with mentions or reviews of material-shell. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-30.

materia-theme

Posts with mentions or reviews of materia-theme. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-06.
  • Tried customizing Pop as a noob!
    2 projects | /r/pop_os | 6 Oct 2022
    GTK-Theme:[Materia](https://github.com/nana-4/materia-theme)
  • Abysmal network performance on XPS 15
    24 projects | /r/archlinux | 24 Aug 2022
     ~ λ paru [sudo] password for ken: :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date multilib is up to date error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mirrors.rit.edu : Resolving timed out after 10000 milliseconds error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from mirrors.rit.edu : Could not resolve host: mirrors.rit.edu warning: too many errors from mirrors.rit.edu, skipping for the remainder of this transaction error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from mirrors.rit.edu : Could not resolve host: mirrors.rit.edu error: failed retrieving file 'multilib.db' from mirrors.rit.edu : Could not resolve host: mirrors.rit.edu error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mirrors.rit.edu : Failed to connect to mirrors.rit.edu port 443 after 8720 ms: Connection timed out :: Starting full system upgrade... there is nothing to do :: Looking for AUR upgrades :: Looking for devel upgrades error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/tryone144/picom.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomoxify.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/phillbush/pmenu.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/themix-plugin-base16.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/GreenRaccoon23/archdroid-icon-theme.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/simmel/urxvt-resize-font.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/gnome-colors-icon-theme.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/wbthomason/packer.nvim error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/khanhas/spicetify-cli.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/gusbemacbe/suru-plus.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/BetterDiscord/BetterDiscord.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/elkowar/eww error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/gusbemacbe/suru-plus-aspromauros.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/numixproject/numix-folders.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/numixproject/numix-icon-theme.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/nana-4/materia-theme.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox-gtk-theme.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/mpereira/tty-solitaire error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/will8211/unimatrix.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://gitlab.com/jallbrit/bonsai.sh.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/archdroid-icon-theme.git error: timed out looking for devel update: https://github.com/themix-project/oomox.git error: timed out looking for devel update: git://github.com/schischi/xcwd :: Resolving dependencies... :: Calculating conflicts... :: Calculating inner conflicts... :: packages not in the AUR: electron15 kalarmcal python-magic-ahupp python2-appdirs python2-ordered-set python2-packaging python2-pyparsing python2-six steam-fonts :: marked out of date: dnstop python-gaphor python-swspotify :: orphans: electron14 gkill-bin ruby-hpricot ugene-bin Aur (12) 3dslicer-bin-5.0.3-2 czkawka-gui-bin-5.0.1-1 ignition-transport-8-8.2.0-2 gazebo-11.11.0-2 lazydocker-0.18.1-1 nvim-packer-git-r522.90b323b-1 paru-1.11.1-1 python-mpv-1.0.1-1 tuner-1.5.1-2 ventoy-bin-1.0.79-3 zoom-5.11.9-1 zotero-6.0.13-1
  • Fedora Minimal Xfce
    2 projects | /r/xfce | 3 Jul 2022
  • My GTK Theme [Orchis]
    2 projects | /r/gnome | 23 May 2022
    Orchis is a [Material Design](https://material.io) theme for GNOME/GTK based desktop environments. Based on nana-4 -- [materia-theme](https://github.com/nana-4/materia-theme)
  • Pinch gesture to show desktop: (Extension: Gesture Improvements)
    4 projects | /r/gnome | 21 Nov 2021
    Materia light compact version
  • Are there any standalone tiling WMs with workflow similar to Material Shell?
    2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 13 Aug 2021
    You mean this?
  • dark themes especially for Xfce
    2 projects | /r/xfce | 30 May 2021
    Materia Dark https://github.com/nana-4/materia-theme, based on material design principles. It's excellent out of the box, but you can also customize the colors and a few other things.
  • Gno-Menu Alternatives?
    5 projects | /r/pop_os | 19 May 2021
  • I've been using Qogir theme on Solus Budgie for a while. And i gotta say that I love Qogir than Solus OS's default theme - Plata Noir. Qogir works perfectly on Solus OS and it's not as dark as Plata Noir. I don't know why Qogir doesn't have a place in Solus offical repo. I hope it will
    5 projects | /r/SolusProject | 15 May 2021
    For Gnome the new default theme is Materia.
  • What's your theme, font, color-scheme of choice?
    12 projects | /r/gnome | 30 Apr 2021
    Theme: Materia

What are some alternatives?

When comparing material-shell and materia-theme you can also consider the following projects:

PaperWM - Tiled scrollable window management for Gnome Shell

dash-to-dock - A dock for the Gnome Shell. This extension moves the dash out of the overview transforming it in a dock for an easier launching of applications and a faster switching between windows and desktops.

titus-awesome - Custom AwesomeWM Theme

i3-gnome - Use i3wm/i3-gaps with GNOME Session infrastructure.

gnome-gesture-improvements - Touchpad gesture improvements for GNOME on Wayland/X11

forge - Forge - Tiling and Window Manager for Gnome-Shell [Moved to: https://github.com/forge-ext/forge]

Fedora-36-Post-Install-Guide - Things to do after installing Fedora 37 [Moved to: https://github.com/devangshekhawat/Fedora-37-Post-Install-Guide]

i3 - A tiling window manager for X11

arc-theme - A flat theme with transparent elements (actively maintained fork)

taskwarrior-tui - `taskwarrior-tui`: A terminal user interface for taskwarrior

gnome-workflows - Allow users to build complex workflows that are launched like any application.