You think UDE looks a little bit ... well ... ugly?
That's no problem, UDE is widely configurable.

Just a configuration example with screenshots, my "Giger" UDE theme:

• Workspaces:
  • Workspace "Alien"
  • Workspace "Biomechanoid"
  • Workspace "New York"
  • Workspace "Erroto"
• Config files: giger.tar.bz2
  (images made for 1280x1024 pixel)
  Unpack the file and put the content of the folder giger in your $HOME-Directory. (You might want to backup your existing config files before ...) The directory .ude contains all UDE config files, the file .bbkeysrc is an example config file for bbkeys.