Launcher - Update the icons used for the Software Centre, Nautilus, and Software Updater

The green for the Software Updater tile is rather unusual as the icon itself doesn't use green at all, and purple for the Files tile is also a bit strange.

I think the static "progress bar" on the Software Center and Updater icons is rather confusing. How will those work when there is an active progress bar?

But at least these designs are plenty early, so there's time to try them out! :)

The software updater icon looks a bit dodgy also - too much shine, and does not appear 'sharp' enough...

Wikipedia "Computer icons":
> Computer icons are by definition language-independent; they do not rely on letters or words to convey their meaning.

This 'A' thing with or without progress-bar is not language-independent at all and you are not going to make language-specific icons for all supported languages, are you?

Furthermore it's "Ubuntu Software Center" and not "Ubuntu Applications Center". Why "A" at all?
It's wrong even if we put aside previous problem (#5).

@lain_halfbit: Seems you're trying to find problems in ev'rything? Please avoid using bug reports as discussion forums! And don't cite Wikipedia to prove a point, I dislike that ;-)

about the updater icon, i hope it is not final.. i would like to have it icon dynamically ..ie.. colorless when no updates are needed, green color plus badge count .. I feel it does not need 'A' and i suggest 'screen with the package' icon inside the update circle, it means it look as a software updater across the devices( in my opinion these devices have screens ,, ie mobile, desktop, tablet)

So, are there going to be different versions with alternative letters for each supported language in Ubuntu?
Like "O" for Finnish and "P" for Spanish, etc.
Or how are the translator teams supposed to cope with this?

The "A" definitely seems language specific.

First of all: what the "A" is suposed to mean? Applications? Do you really
think users will understand that?

And, even if they understand, non-English users won't. In Portuguese,
"Programas" doesn't start with "A".

I agree that the "A" is a bit confusing, perhaps you could use lens-nav-app.svg from the unity visual assets. This would give us greater consistancy across the OS and stop the icon from being language specific.

you can grab the asset here:
http://ubuntuone.com/4CEL2OxpbpfJpSmuEFQ9xc

@Adolfo Jayme Barrientos:
You have seen me in two bugs here (or probably 3) and already made such conclusion! And like I have to care do you like quotes from wiki or not. Fascinating…

Icons must be language-independent. It's just common sense and A letter on these icons have no meaning at all. It clearly fails to represent Ubuntu Software Center. As contributor to localizations and translations you have to understand this even better then I do.

@Hans Heintze:
Nice idea to solve this issue you have here! I do agree with it.

The "A" definitely needs to replaced with some language independent visual indicator like the one specified by @Hans Heintze.

@Marco Trevisan:
Doesnt this part need tweaking in unity?
" the Launcher tiles they are mounted on should be illuminated in the following colours:
Nautilus: #af4853
Software center: #ffbf87
Software updater: #4c9e39 "

@Vish: no, the colours need to be set in .desktop files (X-Unity-IconBackgroundColor field).

By the way, my +1 to replacing the A letter with something more understandable.

> By the way, my +1 to replacing the A letter with something more understandable.
Or change the name of Ubuntu Software Center... Maybe to "Ubuntu Application Center" or "Ubuntu App Store"...

Neither nautilus nor update-manager include these icons.

Restoring nautilus & update-manager for the X-Unity-IconBackgroundColor tasks.

Icon needs to just be added in Ubuntu-mono. Not in Humanity.

Isn't ubuntu-mono supposed to be for mono icons, and full-color ones can go in humanity?

For instance, the HighContrast icon theme inherits from gnome, but we've hacked it to also inherit from Humanity.

Could whoever came with the X-Unity-IconBackgroundColor idea give details on:

- where it was discussed

- why is it needed (is the current algorythm not good enough, can we fix that)?

- what number of .desktop you envision to see patched this way?

Did you consider that hardcoding a color probably works with a specific icon, what if somebody changes the icon theme from the default one? That would probably make the color wrong...

settings to "incomplete" for nautilus, I think that's not a good idea and require discussions to sort out the details before being considered

Jeremy,
We already do add color icons in ubuntu-mono for a few apps. Ex: Nautilus > 'system-file-manager', 'user-desktop' .
We do that so that these changes affect Ubuntu only and not other downstream distros which might use Humanity.
Also, these icons are most probably proprietary, so we do not want to add these icons to Humanity and change the licensing/authors/etc..

What are the license for this icons? Can I use for commercial purposes in a youtube video?

This bug was fixed in the package software-center - 5.5.2.1

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software-center (5.5.2.1) raring; urgency=low

  * lp:~mvo/software-center/lp1081691:
    - add set X-Unity-IconBackgroundColor=#ffbf87 (LP: #1081691)
  * lp:~mvo/software-center/add-missing-dependency-lp888401:
    - add missing dependency on gvfs-backends to get working
      screenshots support (LP: #888401) on systems like kubuntu
  * fix tests in the ADT environment
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:05:58 +0100

Are these icons supposed to show up after doing updates? I'm not seeing them.

Moving to ubuntu-themes (the successor of ubuntu-mono & light-themes).

Also, how about moving the X-Unity-IconBackgroundColor thing into the theme itself (i.e. we can ship a file like /usr/share/icons/Ubuntu-Mono-*/unity-colors that Unity can use)?

John, we need svg icons rather than png ones for the 3 icons (nautilus/update-manager and software-center). Can you please provide that?

@didrocks; Matthieu James needs to look into this, I'll email him now. thx!

This attachment contains the SVG for the 3 applications in 16x16, 24x24, 32x32, 48x48 and 128x128. Tell me if you need another resolution.

What's still blocking this?

This bug was fixed in the package humanity-icon-theme - 0.6.2

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humanity-icon-theme (0.6.2) raring; urgency=low

  * Include updated nautilus and update-manager icons,
    thanks Matthieu James (lp: #1081691)
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 07 Mar 2013 19:45:54 +0100

Mm after the Humanity icon theme update from a few minutes ago, the Software Updater icon did change, but the Nautilus icon didn't. The only way to get the new Nautilus icon is to switch to the Humanity icon theme, but it doesn't work with Ubuntu-mono icon theme for some reason.

@nilarimogard: Yep, that'll be fixed after this is merged: https://code.launchpad.net/~seb128/ubuntu-themes/nautilus-icon-update/+merge/152270

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu8

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nautilus (1:3.6.3-0ubuntu8) raring; urgency=low

  * debian/control.in:
    - Build-Depends on dh-migrations
  * debian/nautilus.migrations, debian/nautilus-unity-launcher-icon.py:
    - script to migration the nautilus' unity launcher entry
  * debian/rules:
    - use dh_migrations
  * debian/nautilus-home.desktop, debian/nautilus-home.desktop.in:
    - use NoDisplay=true as a first step to deprecation, we need to keep
      the entry until the next LTS for migration reasons
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:56:05 +0100

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-themes - 13.04daily13.03.12-0ubuntu1

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ubuntu-themes (13.04daily13.03.12-0ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  [ Sebastien Bacher ]
  * Launcher - Update the icons used for the Software Centre, Nautilus,
    and Software Updater (LP: #1081691)

  [ Ubuntu daily release ]
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 279
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:02:05 +0000

Software Center is still showing the old icon for me.

@Jonathan: did you build s-c from trunk? as indicated the s-c part is "fix commited", not "fix released" (e.g the fix is in the vcs, not in Ubuntu yet)

Fix committed into lp:unity at revision 3210, scheduled for release in unity, milestone backlog

This bug was fixed in the package unity - 6.12.0daily13.03.13.1-0ubuntu1

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unity (6.12.0daily13.03.13.1-0ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  [ Sebastien Bacher ]
  * Launcher - Update the icons used for the Software Centre, Nautilus,
    and Software Updater (LP: #1081691)

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * Nautilus windows don't get the the focus when opened via the dash.
    (LP: #1152733)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * New Shutdown view disables panel shadow (LP: #1152760)
  * Shutdown goodbye text is sometimes partly missing (LP: #1152978)
  * Shutdown view should be closable by escape-key (LP: #1152712)
  * Press Alt+F1, panel’s shadow dissapear (LP: #942965)
  * Long text in previews or dialogs is not properly aligned and/or
    missing (LP: #1152980)
  * Panel Shadow is not drawn properly during workspace switching (LP:
    #1153699)
  * QuicklistMenuItem's do not export the event timestamp on Activate
    (LP: #1154082)
  * [multimonitor] Dash - Opening dash or HUD on one screen removes
    panel shadow on the other (LP: #892718)

  [ Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak ]
  * Lenses shortcuts not working in singular cases (e.g. Super+A) (LP:
    #1152517)

  [ Ubuntu daily release ]
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 3211
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:23:11 +0000

@Sebastien: Thanks, I mis-read my e-mails.

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.185

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update-manager (1:0.185) raring; urgency=low

  [ Sebastien Bacher ]
  * Specify a background color for the unity launcher icon (lp: #1081691)

  [ Michael Terry ]
  * Look for to-be-updated application icons in app-install-data
    (LP: #1145157)
 -- Michael Terry <email address hidden> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:16:44 -0400

This bug was fixed in the package software-center - 5.5.6-0ubuntu1

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software-center (5.5.6-0ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    - Remove "foo" tooltip from account login/creation dialogs. (LP: #1076189)
    - Add new icons from design team. (LP: #1081691)
    - Remove extra .desktop file that we don't need. (LP: #1153548)
  * debian/rules:
    - Remove complicated unbranding rule.
 -- Rodney Dawes <email address hidden> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:52:01 -0400