Comment 29 for bug 430277

After discussion with Loïc, I've agreed to allow this into karmic even though these changes are *well* past the freeze deadlines and include changes unrelated to the bug being addressed here. He assures me that this is a significant net improvement over what we have currently, even though there's some risk of regressions still, and I accept his recommendation. FFe, UIFe granted.

Overall, I'm unhappy with how this bug has played out. The artwork freeze exists for good reason; themes are not merely aesthetic, they need to be QAed as an integral part of the desktop, and late changes to the themes also leave the docs team little time to prepare documentation for inclusion in the release. In the future, I expect icon themes to respect the freeze schedule to not negatively impact other aspects of the release preparation, and further updates to the humanity-icon-theme package in karmic need to be strictly bugfix-only.