faenza

Usually, icons play a relevant role on the desktop, enriching the desktop's look & feel with fancy shapes, pleasant-to-the-eye colors, proper occupation of panels, etc, consequently, while searching a modern intuitive yet "entertaining" desktop, the user is to install various icon themes (in order to tune the desktop to use cases, artistic "requirements", casual moods, etc).

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was released with a smoother, polished interface that, along with its under-the-hood stability enhancements, pleasures the user's eyes in terms of looking, nevertheless, there are always methods to improve one's desktop experience, like for instance, non-default icon themes.

Calibre is a versatile full-fledged e-book library management tool that features a powerful built-in e-book reader with support for numerous file types.

Various users expressed across the internets probably an objective concern related to Calibre's UI, especially about the used icons that seem unsuitable for such a powerful application.

The gorgeous squared icon theme, Faenza, has been updated to another version, 1.2, enhancing its consistent icon stack.

What is new in Faenza 1.2?

Faience and Faenza are two gorgeous icon themes featuring both monochrome and colorful beautifully designed icons.

If you are using Ubuntu's default icon theme, Unity panel manages its attention-related events by changing the color of the envelope (this is the Messaging Menu's behavior).

Faience is an improved Faenza (or Faenza seen in a different way) that is built with 3D in mind, meaning numerous icons have a 3D shadowed contour.

Faience 0.2 has been released just now, bringing, among numerous changes, support for Ubuntu 11.10's Unity panel (Faience was designed, at its very conception, for GNOME-Shell).

What is new in Faience 0.2?

The notorious icon theme, Faenza, has reached yet another release, 1.1 version, packed with numerous goodies and needed changes (for Ubuntu 11.10).

What is new in Faenza 1.1?

Faenza is an icon theme that definitely demands no explanations and, along with the awesome monochrome icons (for panels) and fancy "regular" icons comes a constant development cycle, that adds more and more functionality and suitability.

Faenza 1.0 has just been released bringing numerous changes.

What is new in Faenza 1.0?

One of the main lacks of LibreOffice is its "outdated" look, although there is a clear progress in every release.

LibreOffice Icons Faenza is a group of icons (mainly "Faenza") that aims to provide a modern professional look to LibreOffice (from an icon point-of-view) by delivering monochrome Faenza icons (adapted to properly fit into LibreOffice).

Faenza 0.9 was released a few days ago and, just now, this gorgeous icon theme has suffered yet another small but cool update and reached 0.9.1 version, bringing a new "Faenza-Darker" flavor ("Faenza-Darkest" is included in Faenza 0.9) with light monochrome icons for dark panels&menus and dark monochrome icons for toolbars.

As an example, "Faenza-Darker" is recomended for Elementary-Dark GTK theme and for what fits your needs best.