Development history - PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme GitHub Wiki

This page displays the history of the development of this project, changes in its structure, and the location of its repositories. It has to help you find the previous version of an icon, or discover its history.

Timeline

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title Papirus Project Timeline
dateFormat YYYY-MM-DD
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papirus :done, 2015-08-15, 2016-11-27
papirus-dark :done, 2015-08-15, 2016-11-27
papirus-black-panel :done, 2015-08-15, 2016-05-13
Papirus-GTK :done, papirus-gtk, 2016-02-13, 2016-11-27
Papirus-Dark-GTK :done, papirus-dark-gtk, 2016-02-13, 2016-11-27
Papirus-Arc-Dark-GTK :done, 2016-06-12, 2016-08-07
papirus-arc :done, 2016-08-11, 2016-11-27
papirus-arc-dark :done, 2016-08-11, 2016-11-27
Papirus :active, after papirus-gtk, 2025-12-01
Papirus-Dark :active, after papirus-dark-gtk, 2025-12-01
ePapirus :done, 2016-12-22, 2025-03-16
Papirus-Light :active, 2017-01-05, 2025-12-01
Papirus-Adapta :done, 2017-09-16, 2018-10-14
Papirus-Adapta-Nokto :done, 2017-09-19, 2018-10-14
ePapirus-Dark :done, 2021-08-12, 2025-03-16

[Aug 15, 2015]

Papirus icon theme, as a git repo, starts as part of Papirus Suite monorepo. Discover it on our archive. The icon theme based on an early version of Paper icon theme with a goal to adapt Paper to KDE Plasma Desktop. And at the time, the repo contained 3 icon themes:

1. papirus
2. papirus-dark
3. papirus-black-panel

[Feb 13, 2016]

Added two icon themes for GNOME-based Desktop Environments.

1. Papirus-GTK
2. Papirus-Dark-GTK

[May 30, 2016]

• papirus-black-panel icon theme has been discontinued and removed.

[Jun 1, 2016]

• PapirusDevelopmentTeam organization created on GitHub.
• Papirus Suite monorepo has been split to many independent repositories. The Papirus icon theme continued to exist in two separate repositories: papirus-icon-theme-gtk and papirus-icon-theme-kde.

[Jun 12, 2016]

• Added Papirus-Arc-Dark-GTK, a new derivative icon theme for Arc-Dark theme.

[Aug 7, 2016]

• Removed Papirus-Arc-Dark-GTK icon theme. The gray folders in Papirus-GTK were replaced with blue.

[Aug 11, 2016]

Added two icon themes into papirus-icon-theme-kde repo:

1. papirus-arc
2. papirus-arc-dark

[Nov 27, 2016]

• papirus-icon-theme-kde was merged into papirus-icon-theme-gtk and then papirus-icon-theme-gtk repo has been renamed to the current papirus-icon-theme.
• papirus copied to Papirus-GTK and renamed to Papirus.
• papirus-dark copied to Papirus-Dark-GTK and renamed to Papirus-Dark.
• papirus-arc and papirus-arc-dark has been discontinued and removed.

[Dec 22, 2016]

• Added ePapirus, a new derivative icon theme for Pantheon Desktop.

[Jan 5, 2017]

• Added Papirus-Light icon theme, a new derivative icon theme for themes with the light panels.

[Sep 16, 2017]

• Added Papirus-Adapta, another derivative icon theme created to adapt Papirus monochrome icons for adapta-gtk-theme.

[Sep 19, 2017]

• Added Papirus-Adapta-Nokto for the same goal as Papirus-Adapta.

[Oct 14, 2018]

• Removed Papirus-Adapta and Papirus-Adapta-Nokto icon themes because adapta-gtk-theme has been discontinued.
• The colors for monochrome icons in Papirus, Papirus-Dark have been changed to neutral palette, instead of arc-theme palette that used early.

[Aug 12, 2021]

• Added ePapirus-Dark to support dark theme for Pantheon Desktop.

[Mar 15, 2025]

• Added separated directories for 22px and 24px symbolic icons.

[Mar 16, 2025]

• ePapirus and ePapirus-Dark icon themes were removed #3979

Visual history

This chart is an attempt to visualize the complex development history of this project.

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subgraph s01["papirus-suite"]
	subgraph p01["kde-pack"]
		n01("papirus\n")
		n01 --> n03("papirus-dark")
		n01 --> n02("papirus-black-panel")
		n02 --> n09>"Discontinued in May 30, 2016"]
	end

	subgraph p02["gtk-icons"]
		n05("Papirus-GTK")
		n05 --> n06("Papirus-Dark-GTK")
		n01 -.-> n05
	end
end


subgraph s02["papirus-icon-theme-kde"]
	n10("papirus")
	n10 --> n12("papirus-dark")
	n10 --> n13("papirus-arc")
	n10 --> n14("papirus-arc-dark")
	n13 --> n19>"Discontinued in Nov 27, 2016"]
	n14 --> n19
end


n01 --> n10
n03 --> n12


subgraph s03["papirus-icon-theme-gtk"]
	n25("Papirus-GTK")
	n25 --> n26("Papirus-Dark-GTK")
	n25 --> n27("Papirus-Arc-Dark-GTK")
	n27 --> n29>"Discontinued in Aug 7, 2016"]
end


s01 ===> s02
s01 ===> s03


n05 --> n25
n06 --> n26
  

subgraph s04["papirus-icon-theme"]
	n31("Papirus")
	n31 --> n32("ePapirus")
	n31 --> n33("ePapirus-Dark")
	n31 --> n34("Papirus-Dark")
	n31 --> n35("Papirus-Light")
	n31 --> n36("Papirus-Adapta")
	n31 --> n37("Papirus-Adapta-Nokto")
	n36 --> n39>"Discontinued in Oct 14, 2018"]
	n37 --> n39
	n32 --> n40>"Discontinued in Mar 16, 2025"]
	n33 --> n40
end


s03 ==> s04

n25 --> n31
n26 --> n34