The colors are quite LGBT, aren't they? Is this intentional?
Maybe I was mistaken when thinking that the author or this thread wanted to provide icons that would look like "other Harmattan icons". The way to do that is to follow common conventions when designing the icons, which the original poster has nicely done except that a small detail was missing - the drop shadow. By adding the shadow the remaining icons would look like "Harmattan icons" which probably was the intention. Users definitely can have their icons any way they want but if the point of the author was to improve them towards a clearly defined direction (which happens to be defined in a document called guidelines), my intention was to help him/her to achieve this goal and improve the icons even further. Okay, I just choked on them. What next? Please remember that as you said, if you don't want your icons to look better, you're free to use the original icons, the semi-fixed icons or any other icons. That doesn't have to include anyone choking on anything.