Category: Yaru
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Upcoming Fix for the Window Button Bug in Ubuntu 25.04
If you’ve recently installed Ubuntu 25.04 or upgraded from 24.10, you may have observed an inconsistency with the window buttons in GTK applications. A user named Cristiano Fraga G. Nunes noticed that the minimize, maximize, and close buttons appear to be of different sizes across various GTK applications. Specifically, he highlighted that while GTK4 apps…
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Exciting Updates: Ubuntu 25.04 Yaru Theme Unveils Fresh New Icons
With the feature freeze for Ubuntu 25.04 now in place, the Yaru design team is busy refining the visual elements of the operating system, including updates to the Yaru theme. This theme includes a modified GTK4/libadwaita stylesheet, a GNOME Shell theme, icon pack, and a selection of system sounds. The design team has made subtle…
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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…
