I have installed Debian Testing with XFCE on my laptop. One of the big changes in this version of XFCE is the switch to Gtk3, which means Debian Testing has ditched the ancient Gtk themes that used to come with XFCE. The ones that used to mimic Unix or Windows 3 or, the ones that were more up to date, Windows XP.
XFCE 4.16 on Debian Testing comes with the Adwaita and High Contrast themes - and that's it. For icons you get a choice between Adwaita and Tango, an icon set that doesn't have icons for special folders in the Home directory.
XFCE does not really concentrate on making its desktop look good - it leaves that to Linux distributions, many of which do a very good job of that. Debian does not make any effort to make desktops look good and you get what Gnome or KDE or XFCE or any other desktop ships, and it's up to you what you do with it.
Fortunately, it is very easy to customise XFCE, and there are some very good Gtk3 themes available. There are also some that have been left behind by the pace of Gtk3 development and perhaps don't work as well or look as good as they did.
Of course Adwaita is a very good theme, and XFCE with that theme actually looks pretty good as it comes, but I thought I would share one good Gtk3 theme that I have found.
It's a contemporary flat theme that comes in light and dark versions with a Windows Manager theme and Firefox theme so the whole desktop integrates nicely.
Thunar file manager.
Theme: Quogir by vinceliuice
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