“Because humans need Oxygen.”
The Ubuntu Artwork community just made the first official beta release of the Breathe Icon Theme. It’s a refresh of the Human icon theme using Oxygen as a base. The idea is to create as modern a set as Oxygen but with that distinctly Human feel.
You can grab the 0.43 release on the GNOME-Look page or on the Ubuntu wiki. You can also check out the source on Launchpad.
It’s being developed by community members over on the Artwork Team list-serve. Drop by, join in and share your ideas.

The Breath Icon Theme is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.






I’m sure it’s likely unintentional, but the current gnome-look link includes a vote-up variable that strikes me as slightly underhand and deceptive, which is hardly the kind of thing we want from a project that will be seen as representing the Ubuntu community.
That said, I saw the early development of this theme on the mailing list and I’m very impressed with the development that’s taken place. Congrats.
Representing Ubuntu
May 30, 2009 at 11:27 am
@Representing Ubuntu – dude, lighten up. Usually it takes at least 3 or 4 posts before we get a blog policeman complaining about something
Steve
May 30, 2009 at 11:20 pm
My (little) contribution to Breathe:
http://www.ossblog.it/post/4989/primo-rilascio-per-il-tema-di-icone-breathe
Good luck!
Mefisto
May 30, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Wonderful
Marcelo A.
May 30, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Just amazing
Thanks for the heads up, I am now rediscovering my gnome-oxigen experience
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May 30, 2009 at 4:00 pm
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