Category: Icons
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Ubuntu’s Icon Theme: Addressing the Overlooked ‘Bug’ for a Better User Experience
It appears that Ubuntu’s default icon theme, Yaru, has a subtle yet significant design flaw: some of its icons are oversized. The Yaru icon theme employs four different shapes for its app, folder, and file icons: square, circle, vertical rectangle, and horizontal rectangle. The square icons, which feature rounded corners, are notably larger than desired…
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Ubuntu 24.04: The Revamp of ‘App Center’ with a New Icon
App Center, the Flutter-based substitution for the Ubuntu Software application, has seen a revamped application icon in the most recent Ubuntu 24.04 daily builds. The App Center has undergone more than one icon alteration in the past months. A few months ago, an updated version of the software installation frontend was released and it accidentally…
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New Update in Papirus Icon Pack Adds Over 50 Icons
If you use the Papirus icon theme in Ubuntu you’ll be pleased to hear a new version is available to download. Papirus’s first update in 2024 adds more than 50 new and updated apps icons, and makes a handful of other changes to existing icons, including updating icon names and symlinks. This updates removing a…