Green icons for desktop and computer

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Ubuntu MATE has a green themed icon set based on Humanity called Ambiant-MATE and Radiant-MATE, used by default. Aren't we missing a MATE-ified desktop and computer? The desktop looks more green then purple, which springs the Unity "Ubuntu" desktop to mind.

What if these:

Became:

(Based on Ubuntu MATE's primary colour)

Can't forget this little button on the bottom-left panel:

It's a pretty subtle change, but I feel it properly represents Ubuntu MATE's desktop. Do you agree?

:hand: I propose these greener icons for 16.04 in this bug report.

:package: I have re-coloured them, in which you can fetch the archive from here and extract them to either:

  • ~/.icons/Ambiant-MATE/ to test them to your profile only.
  • Or: /usr/share/icons/Ambiant-MATE/ for system-wide (requires sudo)

Thanks for listening.

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@lah7 Thanks, I’m updating the artwork package today and I’ll include these.

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Oh no! For some reason, the 24 sized computer icon is overriding the 48 one when "Computer" is checked in MATE Tweak... :open_mouth:

New set:

Humanity:

I'm confused... the dimensions are definitely correct. :confused:

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Sorry to be inconvenient (I see it's ready to be updated), I just discovered there were a couple more traces of purple that can be recoloured. :expressionless:

  • preferences-system-network
  • preferences-desktop

I've attached them to the bug report, traces of purple remained on the System menu. :mag:

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Another caveat found:

(I guess I'm misunderstanding something how icon inheritance works...?)