Work is under way for a set of icons that will land in Dapper. These icons aim to make the most of the existing Ubuntu palette. A snapshot of work in progress is provided below. Please send comments to the art team.

The plan is to leverage the existing themes, such as the Gnome default, as well as Tango, but to do our own icons for the most important and visible elements of the Dapper desktop. Essentially, there will be 5 icon themes that are used, in descending order of priority:

1. The "Human" theme, which is our own unique theme that uses the Ubuntu palette and style guidelines. We are open to community contributions to this icon set. The work is being lead by a commercial icon developer, funded by Canonical, but community contributions would help us increase the icon quality and completeness of the theme coverage.

2. A "repaletted" version of Tango, which we have yet to give a name (let's call it OrangeTango for now) which is essentially Tango icons modified to use the palette that will look better on the Ubuntu desktop. This repaletting will be entirely community led (it would be nice if someone wants to take charge of this theme). Contributing to this theme should be easier than contributing to Human, because it's mainly about working on existing Tango icons.

3. Tango, which is a good fallback, it's high quality, consistent. The palette is sometimes not great on the Ubuntu desktop but that's not a problem for many icons.
4. The Gnome default icon theme, for its completeness.
5. Hicolour, because traditionally that's the last fallback.

You can see a page which shows the coverage of each of these themes at http://daniel.holba.ch/ubuntu/ic/ and this will be updated every hour automatically, based on the packages in Dapper.

Below is an example of the new icons on the Ubuntu desktop.

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This is what the icons look like on a white background:

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Tango style

This is a proof of concept "tangoification" of new ubuntu icon design, making those icons tango style require only little changes

You can find tango guidelines [http://tango-project.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines here]

[http://xoomer.virgilio.it/bat/orango-tango/side-by-side.png]

In these icons, I slightly changed the color to comform better to the tango palette, added some perspective, made the stroke a tad lighter and added an inner light stroke (so the icons looks good on any background).

You can find find svgs [http://xoomer.virgilio.it/bat/orango-tango/scalable/ here].

This is a mix of "tangoified" ubuntu icons and other tango icons, see how well they blends.

[http://xoomer.virgilio.it/bat/orango-tango/dappericons-tango-style-blending.png]

Some of the application icons here are actually the upstream icons (banshee, evince, soundjuicer....)