App Center, Ubuntu’s Flutter-based replacement for the Ubuntu Software app, has picked up a redesigned app icon in the latest Ubuntu 24.04 daily builds. This isn’t the first icon change that the App Center has received in recent months. An updated build of the software installation frontend rolled out a few months back, and it unintentionally swapped the full-colour, 3D Yaru icon for a flat, 2D, solid orange icon with transparent elements. While a subsequent update fixed the issue some users say they still see the ‘wrong icon’. Now the App Center icon has changed again — though this time […]

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About a week ago I noticed that the default icon for App Center (the Flutter-based software store-front that replaced Ubuntu Software in 23.10) had changed — and not for the better! At first I assumed the strange looking icon wasn’t intentional but a snafu or screw up I caused (I was playing around with display scaling options when the icon in the dock first changed). But since it persisted after a reboot that made a “Joey” cause less likely. App Center is a snap (snap-store) so it is updated automatically in the background. It turns out that a recent update […]

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