Not really general nonsense but fits best here.. two things to brighten up the general appearance of a Refracta (or other Debian) install. They might even work!
Grub2 "gfx" theme: http://exegnulinux.net/refracta/experim ... cta.tar.gz
xquisite-icon-theme: http://exegnulinux.net/refracta/experim ... .1_all.deb
I found the icons at http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/X ... tent=69735 and deb-packaged them.