Why don't the .deb icons become more picturesque?

Linuksoids often boast that development in a community happens very quickly. Errors in the software correct as soon as possible. New ideas are implemented with lightning speed.

So yesterday, someone d0od, at 14:49 Moscow time, published a note in which he thought that the Windows executable files in combination with the last wine look very nice, which cannot be said about the .deb files. As they say, it's better to see once:





In general, in the evening of the same day, he received, from a man named Alex Eftimie, a script that turns the icons of .deb files into something more aesthetic than gray-brown “boxes”:





The script, of course, is still raw, we need to work on many things, but the result is obvious - about 7 hours to implement the idea!

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Details about the installation, the source code and "a lot of tasty" can be read on omgubuntu.co.uk .