Development history

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.

[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, 2015]

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 (developed for elementary OS).

[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 (developed for elementary OS).