Decrapifying gnome

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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I run kali linux on my laptop. I did a total reinstall yesterday, and I don't like the theme that now ships with kali. Both the top bar and bottom bar have a stupid gradient going on. Screenshot:

The top bar used to be solid black, and the bottom bar didn't exist. I would prefer if it was like this but I can't find the settings to change this. Screenshot:

I tried installing a different theme "Oxygenium" (https://cn.pling.com/img//hive/content-pre1/167568-1.png) because I liked the looks of the preview, but it got worse. You can see in the screenshot the top bar is now light grey, and the font is white. Atrocious
Screenshot:

Edit: I should mention that I've tried "Activities configuratior" and it does nothing. I should also note that the scrollbars are pretty thin, Ideally I'd like to revert that to normal width as well but it isn't absolutely required.

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What is under the appearance tab?

Also, can you not right click the bottom bar and remove it that way?

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Thanks for replying!

Right clicking bottom bar did nothing. That IS how i got rid of it last time though.

I managed to get rid of the bottom bar at least. Apparently gnome uses it as a 'required' extension, so it ignores being disabled in gnome-tweak-tool. That is really really really terrible behavior. Info on how is here http://askubuntu.com/questions/565851/how-to-get-rid-of-the-bottom-panel-in-gnome-3-classic-session

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Furthur updates! I have found a theme that sort of works
Screenshot:

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Unfortunately I can't change change my desktop background while simultaneously having GTK+ set to Adwaita
Screenshot:

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I don't want to change GTK+ to Obsidian 1, or in fact anything other than Adwaita because then window behavior starts to be broken

How did gnome get so broken in one year?

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This might help you

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That happens because Firefox is not updating everything. Just restart it after changing theme.

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