creating my own icon theme?

[renzokuken]

does anyone know how to create my own icon theme?

i have loads of icons i have acquired from deviantart and various places and i want to collate all my fave icons for folders/apps/devices etc in my own personal theme

thing is i dont know how to start going about it

EDIT: dont worry actually, i did it

[bryanchapman9999]

How do you do it?

thanks
Bryan

[renzokuken]

in the end, i simply copied the directory for the gnome icon theme located at /usr/share/icons/gnome ("gnome" being the name of the actual theme) to somewhere safe like my home directory (u can use any icon theme really, i wasn't gonna replace all the icons, just a few of the common ones and i like most of the "gnome" theme)

once there, i simply used gimp to resize the icons i acquired from various sites, and dropped them in the appropriate subdirectory with the correct/relevant name. then alter the "index.theme" file and change it to whatever u want to call your theme. when i'd finished, i compressed the folder with ArchiveManager into a .tar.gz file.

then i simply went to System - Prefernces - Theme and the "install new theme" ..... selected the .tar.gz file i just created and hey presto, all done !!

i would post my custom theme but i didnt create any of the icons and so dont wanna be cheeky to the people who spent ages actually making them

EDIT : if i get five mins spare i'll write a HOWTO

[bvc]

http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7397&highlight=gib
http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=385
http://kwh.kernow-gb.com/~bvc/theme/icons/gib/