For fans of my Moka icon set, you may have noticed that a slow in it’s updates or the slight restructure that it underwent not too long ago. Well, this was in preparation for the next iteration of Moka.

Here comes a 2.0

Moka refined

This is the refined design of Moka. Notable here is that it has been downsized –the 64×64 and 96×96 pixel sized icons have been removed– with the intent to make it a smaller (in MB) icon theme overall.

The restructure/split-up may have puzzled some of you, here’s my reasoning: This is part of a new beginning of sorts for Moka, which achieved two things:

1. It would make the theme abide by the standard set for desktop icons.
2. Moka will now solely be the icons of the above design, all other icons (folders, mimetypes, action icons, statuses, etc.) will form a new icon theme which will act as a base icon theme for all others to come.
   • The symbolic icon theme will also become standalone, as well as the monochrome tray icons for environments that make use of theme.
   • This new icon theme will be follow strictly the Tango icon guidelines and will resemble in part the pre-existing icons from Moka 0.x and 1.x series.

Introducing Faba

This new icon theme that will make up the base of Moka, will be called “Faba” –the name is rather arbitrary: it’s simply “bean” in latin– and what I’ll strive towards with Faba is a complete alternative Tango icon theme (much like many default GNOME desktop icon themes).

Like I said before, Faba will be based on the current Moka base icons but will be refined and updated; I’m half starting anew and half redoing old Moka. :)

Look for Moka & Faba in the future. :)