The Blueberry Ripple GNOME-Shell theme is based on the light variant of Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich"'s default theme "Holo".
This theme has been tested to look good on most wallpapers, so don't worry

The wallpaper is :thumb256167832: by

I recommend

's Holo GTK+ theme :thumb280076980: for use with this GNOME-Shell theme, it matches pretty well.
Changelog:
1.0:
-initial release
1.1:
-added compatibility for GNOME-Shell 3.4
1.11:
-fixed colour of flashspot
-fixed path of dash-background-image for rtl
The notification tray, is it not just like a system tray, or notification applets, or whatever other distros use?
It's more productive that Unity I'll give you that
Shame the default theme is so awful and the Gnome 3/GTK 3 (adwaita) style is so babyishly large and bland.
It's annoying that the default theme doesn't look better, indeed, but it looks really good if you have the right themes installed
Lol, what do you do on there then?
If you only have the messaging open and no other windows, i meant, what else do you do with your desktop.