Binary package hint: humanity-icon-theme
The default panel icons have lost all their color, making them difficult to see and understand. (E.g. volume and signal indicator use grey vs light-dark to indicate levels!) This is a regression from Jaunty where the icons were colorful like the rest of the panel, menus, and desktop. All modern video cards made this century can handle 32bit color -- dropping to grey-scale as the default seems to be a mistake. The prior panel icons used color to fill in empty grey bars for volume/signal, etc. This appears to be a regression in that it wildly deviates from the expected theme; to quote: "elementary icons is one of the most recognized and influential icon themes in the open source world." https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Humanity_Icons
This should be fixed in conjunction with bug 450809, which is another color regression.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 13 16:05:16 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: humanity-icon-theme 0.4.1ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.44-generic
SourcePackage: humanity-icon-theme
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic x86_64
This was a design decision. The reasons where:
- The notification area icons a constant presence and the use of color draws undue attention to these icons.
- But rather , if the use of color [red] is restricted to only errors and warnings, when these icons gain color for the errors and warnings more attention is grabbed by these icons , which would lead the users to react more quickly.
Marking it as incomplete , because , any change for Ubuntu needs to be directed by the UX team.