icons

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.

Although there won't be a new icon theme in Ubuntu 11.10 (it will probably land in Ubuntu 12.04), a number of relevant icons has been changed during this development cycle.

A new update in the Ubuntu Mono icons has brought a new interesting desktop/user-desktop icon, represented by the default wallpaper with a top white-ish line, basically a miniature of the desktop with a panel.

The gorgeous token-like icon theme, AwOken, has reached yet another interesting release, 2.2 version, bringing numerous changes and extended support.

What is new in AwOken 2.2?

• redesigned/improved icons (audio, network, battery and arrow/navigation)

Faience is the name of the newest "creation" of Faenza's Tiheum, an icon theme created with GNOME-Shell in mind (at least at the moment) but works in Unity, too (in this stage of development, in Faience there is a limited support for the Unity panel, so, you will loose some of the monochrome icons).

Faience 0.1 is a work-in-progress and depends on Faenza (it is basically another improved version of Faenza), so, to run it, you need to install Faenza.

Faience comes in three flavors:

It seems that Oneiric Ocelot is heading towards an easy-to-use but full-fledged, feature-full experience.

Starting months ago, the indicators have been put into a continuous work/rework (the Me Menu has been integrated into an enhanced Messaging Menu, new "Clear" option, middle-click on the Sound Indicator to mute it ON/OFF, etc).

There were some rumors concerning a new icon theme in Ubuntu 11.10, but, now, it is almost certain that the new icon theme will land 100% in Oneiric +1.

Nevertheless, new icons are still landing in Oneiric.
A previous update put a colored "Computer" icon on the Unity panel that was breaking its consistency.
Just now, another update fixed this issues, and, Oneiric features now a new redesigned Session Menu monochrome icon.

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?

AwOken, a token-like awesome icon set, has been updated to version 2.1 bringing a numerous changes.

So, what is new in AwOken 2.1?

If you use Ubuntu and want a monochrome-like icon set, then AwOken is a pretty good choice.

AwOken 2.0 has just been released, bringing:

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.