The "Install theme-friendly icons" GNOME goal is currently going on. This one had previously been announced, and partially completed, but the guidelines were buggy. So if you are a brave hacker-wanabe, and you are interested in helping the GNOME Desktop to improve its consistency, then here's a task for you !

Spread the word about this goal !

Hopefully, Brian Pepple has started to squash these dirty bugs, but he definitely needs your help ! On the best case, a simple 3 lines patch will be enough, so you can learn how to submit your first patch. On the (other) best case, the whole task needs to be completed, and you can then learn how to make an application behave nice with icon themes, so that a theme can override the application's icon.

So thank you Brian, and if you, reader, have some spare time, help Brian to improve consistency in the GNOME Desktop !