[Solved!] Karmic’s UGLY Ethernet Icon – Vote To Change It!

By , Published September 22, 2009

Update

An updated icon will be shipping in the next update to the human theme! Hurrah!

~thanks Yann Dìnenda for the tip-off!

Karmic Koala's icon for displaying a wired connection is, in all fairness, quite ugly.

It resembles the shape of an Ethernet port (if you squint) but it's surely far too big and cumbersome to be left as the final icon?!

Screenshot

Yes, that really is it, and people are not impressed!

Some have mistaken it for a piano, a random black rectangle and even a screen defect!

Democracy in icon!

yzarc on the UbuntuFroums makes an interesting point about it: -

If I’m connected then the ethernet connector can’t be empty as in the showed icon.
The NM shows empty connector when I just connected, metaphoric fail.

To vote to change it, simply hit the €œAffects me too€ button in the Launchpad bug report for this issue: -

affects

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/human-icon-theme/+bug/423167/+affectsmetoo

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Anonymous

    i think is beatifull icon,
    is the first thing that common people remember “that port is like a phone plug but bigger”.
    :)

  • yzarc

    my comment is here on OMG! o/

  • http://yann.universfantastiques.org/ Yann Dìnendal
  • tomas

    jesus christ! are all people at canonical lack basic aesthetic taste? someone at canonical should do the job for ubuntu to look at least normal. mix of brown and grey. is this suppose to resamble some shit?