We are proud to announce the second official eyeOS theme, available at the eyeOS Applications Community: The eyeOS Light Desktop.

The Light Desktop theme is a lightweight theme that removes the effects-based menus and adds a new left bar on the desktop (that can be easily edited) with the favorite apps and places, with a new menu that shows all the applications.

It will come bundled with eyeOS 1.6 as an optional theme (the default one will be the current one with some improvements).

If you have an eyeOS server, you can download and install this theme easily, following the instructions at the theme’s download page. You can also take a look at the other great eyeOS Themes available there.

If you use the eyeOS Public Server or any other public server that has this theme installed, you can follow this instructions to enable the Light Desktop:

1. Open System Preferences
2. Go to Autorun Commands and click on New.
3. Write eyeLightDesk (note that it’s case sensitive!) and click on Add.
4. Go to Theme and select Light Desktop.
5. Close your session and log in. That’s all!

If you want your desktop to load faster, you can remove eyeDock and eyeDesk_extras from your Autorun Commands. Just re-add them when you want to switch to the default theme again.

If you are having problems enabling this theme, you can check the common problems and solutions at them theme download page.