Lucid Gets New Icons For Rhythmbox, UbuntuOne, MeMenu, More!

By , Published February 16, 2010

Some updates to the default Humanity icon theme just landed in Lucid including some shiny new icons for Rhythmbox, the MeMenu/status, Battery and trash amongst others.

I almost feel like saying “Spoilers below”.

Do ignore the sound icon in these screenshots, I’ve word that they’re NOT the final one but just a ‘place-holder’ for now…

The Rhythmbox icon changes depending on playing

Weather
The weather icons are now (finally) monochrome to match the rest of the Humanity “panel” icons.

File Transfer
The nautilus transfer icon that appears on the panel has also been mono-chromed. The “old” version looked extremely large on the panel not to mention out of place. This smaller icon looks lush and coherent with the rest of the icons.

Evolution
Evolution also benefits from this icon refresh, gaining its own humanity-esque icons for various sections where previously icons were missing.


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UbuntuOne
UbuntuOne hasn’t been left out either and now sports two brand new icons: -

Others
You can see the trash and ‘charging’ icon in OMG! contributor omer26er‘s screenshot (Click to view larger): -

Thanks to omer26er
Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • http://orkutcidio.deliriocoletivo.org Peterson Espaçoporto

    OMG! Volume and Rhythmbox look ugly as HELL

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      The volume really doesn’t look like its part of the same icon set at all…

      • http://orkutcidio.deliriocoletivo.org Peterson Espaçoporto

        exactly!!

        • http://blastfromthepast.se/ Tommy Brunn

          The volume one is quite horrible, yes. Especially compared to what it currently looks like in Karmic. The Rhythmbox one is not really that bad though.

          • http://www.linuxmint.com/ Jimbo

            The volume belongs in a different icon set. Hopefully it is just a placeholder? Man I hope so, though my faith in the Ubuntu theme people is so low that I just don’t know.

      • none

        That’s not the icon designed for the panel, if you look in the icons folder there are a lot of volume-*-panel files, that means lucid is going to ship with a patched gnome-panel that looks for *-panel icons and use them with higher priority.

        • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

          I wasn’t convinced this was the final icon anyway, but that’s good to know!

        • none

          oh, that’s also true for the bubbles, they will be monochrome in the panel

  • http://www.martinsmucker.com Michael Martin-Smucker

    This is some really good news. I always thought that the status icons in Karmic were one of the few truly bad design decisions. The only difference between ‘Available’ and ‘Offline’ – two complete opposite states – was a subtle shade of gray. Without any point of reference, it’s really difficult to remember if the icon you’re looking at is the darker or lighter version of the icon. To make matters worse, if you use a dark panel, dark = offline, light = online; if you use a light panel, dark = online, light = offline.

    Not only do the new icons fix this awful design decision from Karmic, but they actually look pretty snazzy. Good work Humanity/Ubuntu-artwork team. My one complaint, why does the ‘offline’ icon look like it’s pressed in, while all of the other status icons look like they’re bubbling out?

  • Blucat

    Actually I wish they would go back to the Intrepid icons for the tray area. The ones in Karmic are nearly invisible on anything but the default background.

    • http://identi.ca/cruelangel CruelAngel

      There was a Humanity-Dark iconset installed by default, you could use that on dark panels easily. (I am actually doing that since Karmic day one.)

  • http://www.geniuslife.wordpress.com/ Júlio

    I think it is good… except for the Volume icon which is different from the rest.
    Some icons are amazing!

  • http://seifsallam.co.cc/ Seif Sallam

    This looks amazing

  • Serg

    Great! about Rhythmbox… do you know if they are making any change on its interface? I really like rhythmbox but i find its position bar (i really dont know how to call it) a waste of space, specially if you have a small screen.

    • http://twitter.com/arkashkin1 Arkadi Viner

      totally agree with you.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      I don’t know of any -major- changes to Rhythmbox for 10.04 other than the Ubuntu Music Store.

      • http://orkutcidio.deliriocoletivo.org Peterson Espaçoporto

        and the context panel? =)

        • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

          Oh yeah – is that not already in the latest Rhythmbox release? I’ve been using Rhythmbox from GIT for so long i’ve forgotten what is actually in what…

          • http://orkutcidio.deliriocoletivo.org Peterson Espaçoporto

            Hmm I don’t know. I’m trying KDE in Lucid, so I don’t know…

          • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

            =O The dark side!

            (Joking =P)

          • http://orkutcidio.deliriocoletivo.org Peterson Espaçoporto

            EAHHEAEAH what can I do, the dark side has cookies! =D

          • KenP

            You can get similar monochrome icons for Kubuntu (and KDE, in general) already. See here:
            http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/leo-like-icons+V1?content=120074

          • http://orkutcidio.deliriocoletivo.org Peterson Espaçoporto

            Cool Iconset. Maybe I’ll try it, thanks! =)

  • Anonymous

    This monochrome stuff is all well and good, until you start to actually use Ubuntu. Icons that are all the same are hard to distinguish. And all the consistent prettiness is gone as soon as you’re using Opera, Dropbox, Spotify, and choose not to use the Notification applet.

    Inconsistent may not be pretty, but the tray is something we use, not admire.

    • Anonymous

      eventually i’m sure they plan to expand the prettiness to non-default apps. soon i’m sure app maintainers will start packaging in monochrome versions, or work arounds will be released.

    • Anonymous

      I have to agree. Also to me it just screams “I want to copycat OS X”.

  • Jochem

    A few of these icons also landed in Karmic just the other day

  • http://twitter.com/WolfHook Paul

    I like it, starting to look more and more like OSX everyday.

    I have never managed to get that weather add-on to work in any Linux distro I have used, same as the locations option.

  • Simon

    How do we install this in Karmic?

  • Mohan

    Very cool, looks like the Humanity Icons are getting some nice updates, and somehow on my desktop I have it being update so I had the new Ubuntu One and the weather icons for sometime now.

    EDIT: I sure hope the update icon would get the same treatment soon, because at the moment it’s a bit too big, I don’t mind if it’s colourful or monochrome, it just needs to be bit smaller.

  • Jake

    Dont like the play/pause rhythmbox icons, it just doesnt look good. Why would you even do it? Normally you hear if the music is paused or not ;)

    a bit off-topic: is there something like what candy-bar for mac is, an app to change icons and such easily (read: batch) instead of digging into the icon-folders.

    if not, what do theme-designers use to work efficient?

    • Yi Sun-sin

      Nope, but one can use Parasite ( http://chipx86.github.com/gtkparasite/ ) to do that.

    • TomBous

      If you are in mute mode you don’t know if rhythmbox is play or pause, juste listening ;)

  • Anonymous

    Oresome!

  • Mike

    So, I accidently removed the Me-Menu from my panel and can’t figure out how to get it back on there. Any ideas?

    • Anonymous

      Right Click on the panel and click add to panel. In the popup box that appears find the “Indicator applet session” and drag it to your panel

  • Griffin Allen

    Gettin’ sexier everyday. This is what I like to see. B]

  • daas88

    Is it just me or the tray icons have too much empty space between each other?

  • Robin

    did anyone notice the several *hidden* icons in humanity ?
    There are icons for gnome-do , tomboy, x-chat , compiz-fusion … all named with -panel names ..
    These are probably waiting for app-indicator support.???

  • http://onubuntu.blogspot.com/ Kah Ping

    Nice overall but doesn’t anybody find the charging icon’s green color out of place?

  • om26er

    Its turns out the icons in the MeMenu were actually a bug they should will return to their previous form :( https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/humanity-icon-theme/+bug/522698

  • 6205

    You can thank me for bugreporting later :)

  • http://wereveryware.blogspot.com/ Dave

    Check this article using ur content without giving you any credit about it.

    http://tuxandpop.wordpress.com/2010/02/17/ubuntu-10-04-y-su-aspecto-visual/

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Why the rascal! Thanks, i’ve popped a comment asking him to give some credit.

  • http://www.lucainvernizzi.net Luca Invernizzi

    I took a shot at drawing “Getting things GNOME” Humanity icon. Here’s the link
    http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=120402
    comments appreciated

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      As a GTG! worshipper i really appreciate this! =D

  • Jan Nekvasil

    New icons for Evolution (“Reply”, “Reply to all”, “Forward”) are a bit confusing, aren’t they? I have filled a bug against it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/523466, hoping this will be recognized as a bug and get fixed.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      I certainly agree – the forward one screams “Send” to me

  • Aaron

    Wooot! Theres somthing thats gona get ubuntu as a deafault operating system in all laptops! I mean like… Tell me 3 things that windows can do and ubuntu cannot

  • Anonymous

    I like how the panel is going. I really love these monochrome icons, they make the panel look more organized and clean. But I find something odd, why are there two icons displaying your status when you open empathy? Isn’t the ‘Me menu’ in charge of the status icons and stuff? That’s kind of stupid.