Category: Yaru

  • Exciting Updates: Ubuntu 25.04 Yaru Theme Unveils Fresh New Icons

    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…

  • 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…