This release adds a "HiDPI" version of the main theme; a scalable SVG-based theme that works better for 2x or 3x window scaling on high resolution displays.
The "dark" version of the theme has been deprecated in favor of a unified main theme where the "light" and "dark" panel icons were colorized and incorporated into the main theme. Additionally, more symbolic icons were added. Symbolic icons, where the desktop theme automatically colors icons for best contrast, have been fairly standard for some time now. Originally our color-but-actually-monochrome light and dark panel icons were meant to give a similar look before true symbolic icons existed. Now that symbolic icons exist and are so widely used, we should no longer need to force color icons to look like symbolic icons.
Now that elementary-xfce provides both more color and more symbolic panel icons, the singular main theme should now look better whether an app wants to use color or symbolic icons. It should also work better with a wider variety of desktop themes. This resolves a lot of visibility and consistency issues as well, especially for mixed light and dark desktop themes. For example, with the old method, a white volume icon would look good on a dark panel, but it would not be visible in light menus or apps. With the new method, if the app requests a color icon, it will be provided. If it requests a symbolic icon, it will be light on the dark panel, and dark on the light menu.
Thanks once again to those who filed issues, contributed, and for the support! The full changelog is below.
New
- Actions: Drop unused inkscape icons, add some at 16px (#502)
- Add HiDPI theme for better scaling, hi-res displays (#476)
- Apps: Add htop icon (#514)
- Apps: Add screenshot tool from upstream (#516)
- Emblems: Update read/write restricted emblems (#501)
- Status: Colorize and unify
user-chat icons (#478) - Status: Colorize Ayatana Indicator icons (#471)
- Status: Colorize battery icons (16px-24px) (#466)
- Status: Colorize bluetooth icons (16px-24px) (#468)
- Status: Colorize gpm- mouse, keyboard, phone (#507)
- Status: Colorize Haguichi icons, fix naming (#503)
- Status: Colorize microphone sensitivity icons (#508)
- Status: Colorize more network icons (16px-22px) (#470)
- Status: Colorize more panel/indicator icons (#511)
- Status: Colorize volume icons (#467)
Changed
Fixed
- Dark: Add deprecation warning (#513)
- Dark: Remove broken symlinks (#499)
- Dark: Removed more redundant symlinks (#509)
- Dark: Remove duplicated symlinks (#504)
Removed
- MimeTypes: Removed some unused symlinks (#515)
- Panel: Remove likely unused icons (#510)
- Panel: Remove panel folders, move/remove remaining icons (#512)
- Remove inherited themes from index.theme (#461)
Full Changelog: v0.20.1...v0.21