New Artwork Lands in Ubuntu Karmic

With a little over a month to go before the final release of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) some of the much anticipated new artwork has landed. The new start up splash screen powered by xsplash looks exactly like the mock-ups and is a welcome change from the old usplash theme that was growing stagnant.

The default desktop now uses the Humanity icon theme instead of Human which gives everything a refreshingly new feel and in a page taken directly from OS X and Windows 7 the notification area icons are now all uniform in color and theme which gives it a much more professional feel.

There are also a multitude of new desktop wallpapers that just showed up with today's updates.

All in all, it looks like when the Karmic Koala ships on October 29th it will be another great release from the team at Canonical and the Ubuntu community and this time some of the long overdue artwork should actually ship with the final.