Just in time for the launch of the first beta which is scheduled for today, Canonical has made a small change to Ubuntu 20.10 It seems that the community is liking it. It is about the new design in an icon, more specifically that of its installer, which in Canonical's system is Ubiquity. Focal Fossa changed the old icon for a much more visual one, but it did not seem to make it very clear what it was. Did the image fade or ride?
The change have discovered in the middle OMG! Ubuntu! Otherwise, probably users like me, who have it installed in a virtual machine, we would not have noticed until reinstalling a new virtual machine, in this case the Ubuntu 21.04 HAnimal target. What about if He Installer icon redesign it makes sense, especially if we see the image where the previous and current appear enlarged. Again it speaks for itself.
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Ubiquity Icons (Source: OMG! Ubuntu!)
In the previous image we can understand why they have decided to go back to the past: in Eoan Ermine, the icon was that of a hard disk with an arrow indicating that something was going to be put into it; in the of Focal Fossa, the icon was incomplete and was being assembled, but could lead to the confusion that it was disintegrating; already in Groovy Gorilla, although, as we have explained, it is better understood if we expand it, we see the same hard disk as in Eoan Ermine, with the difference that this time there is no blue arrow, but a Ubuntu logo written to the drive.
It is true that it is not a change that will improve things much, in fact, although it was confusing, it seemed more visual to me in the previous one, but it is a change that will come to Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla and we are obliged to report on it . As for the arrival of the new version, its landing is scheduled for the next Thursday, October 22.