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After writing about the icons in the Fedora 11 Gnome desktop I came across this article on OSNews about Gnome possibly dropping the icons on menus and buttons.

From the comments it’s clear that most people think that the Gnome developers should just fix the icons rather than just remove them but I’m undecided on the issue. I certainly agree that Gnome has a ‘chunky’ appearance right now that removing icons would fix but properly designed svg icons would also look great.

Nothing is decided as yet but it will be interesting to see what happens to Gnome in the near future.

Using Fedora 11 with the default settings it strikes me that although most of the interface and icons seems reasonably modern there’s a few glaring exceptions. See the image below from the Control Centre.

The ‘Network’ and ‘Network Device Control’ icons look like they haven’t been updated in years, in fact I’m sure they’re the same as when I started using Fedora Core 4. They’re not terrible but they certainly stand out as being different from the rest. Maybe Fedora 12 will show them some love….