Category: Icons

  • Ubuntu’s Icon Theme: Addressing the Overlooked ‘Bug’ for a Better User Experience

    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…

  • Ubuntu 24.04: The Revamp of ‘App Center’ with a New Icon

    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…

  • New Update in Papirus Icon Pack Adds Over 50 Icons

    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…