icons

Phones and tablets are to receive in the future the pure Ubuntu operating system filtered through a touch experience, projects developed under Ubuntu Touch's umbrella.

Along with numerous, exciting and impressive constantly-landed features in Ubuntu Touch, the developers have created an icon theme (work in progress) designed with the touch OS in mind.

Labeled as Ubuntu Mobile Icon theme, the basic set of icons groups fancy icons with pleasant-to-the-eye shapes and vivid colors, as well as monochrome-icons.

Regardless of used text editors, video editors, e-book readers, file managers, etc, the user is always faced with icons, packs of visual items that have the potential to beautify one's desktop.

AwOken is an interesting icon theme that groups a massive set of icons with modern, fancy shapes, colors and patterns, allowing users to push an elegant, neat look & feel to the desktop.

Along with the powerful desktop, Ubuntu houses Ubuntu for phones and Ubuntu for tablets, polished innovative interfaces aimed at beautifying tablets and smartphones with touch-based Ubuntu operating systems.

The work on Ubuntu Touch has already started, exposing (currently, in progress) usable applications, such as Weather, Calculator, Calendar, etc.

It is common, is it not, to use icon themes to enrich our desktops, applications, interfaces, adding (or constantly adding) new flavors to our computers' look & feel.

Nitrux is an interesting icon theme, putting together a massive number of icons under two main icon flavors, allowing users to experience colored worked-on-detail icons.

Nitrux has been updated to another meaningful release, version 3.0, introducing radical changes, such as:

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).

Icons are sometimes a mean of both beautifying the desktop and enhancing its usability, latter quality especially achieved with intuitive clear clean icons (exposed on the Unity panel, where the used size forces the icon to be properly designed, as well on the Dash, from where full-of-visual-detail icons are immediately picked and accessed, if the user identifies them as their intended purpose).

NITRUX icon pack is a solid bundle of icons, presenting the user a massive amount of icons suitable for Ubuntu's key areas.

Calibre is a versatile powerful e-book library management tool, uniting (under a singular interface) numerous functionalities, such as metadata editing, e-book viewer, e-book conversion, automatic online news downloading, etc.

While Calibre can be definitely considered a high-quality tool (as compared to application from both open and proprietary "worlds"), there are users expressing demands for various visual refinements, especially related to the used icon theme.

Articles, books, written tutorials are usually a proper medium to carry informations about how, what, where and why related to a particular application, coding language, etc but, sometimes, video tutorials that bear a more easy to "digest" attitude, can born a spark in someone's mind related to a project (to be involved in that project after seeing how professional are doing "it") or simply clear the doubts that may falsely surround a specific action or set of actions (such as "I won't involve in that project because it is superrrr hard"-misconceptions).

The GIMP is a full-fledged versatile image manipulation tool with support for various customizations, that can bring a plus in its overall look and feel.

DPixel is a monochrome icon pack designed for GIMP 2.6's toolbox (size 22px), that comes in two flavors, light and dark, suitable for various GTK+ themes (the light icons usable in dark GTK+ themes, etc).

One of the most valuable qualities in Ubuntu is how the regular users' feedback is received and "digested", meaning the community has a real power in some decision (especially in the UI-related choices).

The Indicator Session's icon has suffered several transformation in the last weeks going to power+cog, more power+less cog cycles, and, just now, an update has brought the "Power Cog" icon back on the Unity panel.