Yaru-light

Yaru-light got rid of all dark panels from the Yaru theme.

Tested under Ubuntu 26.04 LTS GNOME Shell 50.1 and Fedora Silverblue GNOME 50.0.

Installation

Place this theme under user directory ~/.local/share/themes/Yaru-light/ and enable the User Themes extension to load it.

Go to Tweaks - Appearance - Shell - Yaru-light and select it to apply the theme.

Quick install

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/themes/Yaru-light/
curl -sL $(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/spookyrunt/Yaru-light/releases/latest |
  jq -r '.assets[0].browser_download_url') |
  tar -xzv -C ~/.local/share/themes/Yaru-light/ --strip-components=1
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.user-theme name "Yaru-light"

Prerequisites

GNOME Tweaks and GNOME Extensions Manager are needed to manage user themes.

sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-manager gnome-tweaks

Light Style can help cover extension elements missed by this theme, such as Window List on Fedora.

License

Whatever the original source code of Yaru came with.