Icon Theme

[whiskeylover]

I downloaded a lot of icon themes from http://art.gnome.org/themes/icon. I installed them using the Appearance Preferences applet -> Theme -> Install. But every time I select a new theme, it only changes a few icons (on the gnome bar, menu items etc.) The rest are the default gnome theme icons.

I've seen people having custom icons on their gnome panels, awt docs and dockys. How do they do that? I've tried deleting the icon set and reinstalling it again. But again, only a select few change.

Am I missing something?

As you can see from the attached screenshots, the theme has over 400 icons. But on the gnome panel, nothing changes, and on the file browser, a few icons for folders etc have changed. But overall, it still uses the old gnome icons.

Please help.

[gashcr]

I downloaded a lot of icon themes from http://art.gnome.org/themes/icon. I installed them using the Appearance Preferences applet -> Theme -> Install. But every time I select a new theme, it only changes a few icons (on the gnome bar, menu items etc.) The rest are the default gnome theme icons.

I've seen people having custom icons on their gnome panels, awt docs and dockys. How do they do that? I've tried deleting the icon set and reinstalling it again. But again, only a select few change.

Am I missing something?

As you can see from the attached screenshots, the theme has over 400 icons. But on the gnome panel, nothing changes, and on the file browser, a few icons for folders etc have changed. But overall, it still uses the old gnome icons.

Please help.


Well, some iconsets come with several icons, but in different sizes for toolbars. Sometimes, the configuration file is not complete, so many icons aren't assigned. Most Gnome themes come with system icons only, and many of them rely on the basic gnome iconset. So it's common that such things happens. Sometimes, you need to restart X for the system to read the iconset and set it properly. If you're downloading from gnome-look, I'd suggest to go for the highest rated ones, as they're usually better configured :)

[whiskeylover]

Thanks for your quick reply. I downloaded the themes from art.gnome.org. And since they only have a handful of Icon themes, I assumed that they're checked for consistency. Also, the one I'm currently trying to use has icons for almost everything - firefox, network etc. And yet nothing gets applied. I even restarted my computer but nothing changed.

I'll try some icon themes from gnome-look and report back :(

[gashcr]

Well, yeah, iconsets in art.gnome are pretty basic sets, and you maybe won't notice any difference other than folders and a pair of system tools. If you want some more flash go with gnome-look sets.

[whiskeylover]

Well, yeah, iconsets in art.gnome are pretty basic sets, and you maybe won't notice any difference other than folders and a pair of system tools. If you want some more flash go with gnome-look sets.

But this particular one that I downloaded from art.gnome looks pretty complete. It has icons for almost everything. Here is the URL.
http://art.gnome.org/download/themes/icon/1281/ICON-GFlatSVG.tar.gz

It has 1,588 files (including icons and theme files).

I guess the *.theme file is incomplete :(

I just want a nice dark icon theme for my desktop. I'm still a n00b.

[gashcr]

But this particular one that I downloaded from art.gnome looks pretty complete. It has icons for almost everything. Here is the URL.
http://art.gnome.org/download/themes/icon/1281/ICON-GFlatSVG.tar.gz

It has 1,588 files (including icons and theme files).

I guess the *.theme file is incomplete :(

I just want a nice dark icon theme for my desktop. I'm still a n00b.

Yeah, maybe it's the .theme file which isn't taking full advantage of all the icons. Some people use to put extra icons just to let you choose, and maybe configure the .theme on your own. I can recommend some pretty good ones for you:

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/LaGaDesk-BlueNight?content=109343
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Oxygen-Refit+2+-+Black+Version?content=83623
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/SimplyGrey?content=93674
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Smokikon?content=90577

I don't know wich one you'll like the most, but all of them have worked pretty good to me.

This is not dark, but is an awesome theme:

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Meliae?content=88482

Hey, and don't call yourself noob, nobody comes with the man files written in their brains after all ;)

[whiskeylover]

Thanks. I like these.

Although, now there is another problem. The icon for firefox is fuxored for some reason. Changing icon theme doesn't help. It shows a greyish icon for firefox no matter what icon theme I use.

p.s. None of these theme change the icons on the indicator applet (for volume, network etc.) They're still the old icons. Does anyone know if the icon theme changes those?

[whiskeylover]

Does anyone have an icon theme that they know changes icons on docky, gnome panel, indicator applet, desktop and menus? I'll give it a try and see it if works for me.

I have a suspicion that something is broken on my laptop which is causing all icons to either not update, or look messed up, like firefox is currently :'(

gashcr, the Meliae theme you posted is really good. It has icons for firefox, weather icons, network icons, blueetooth icons, battery icons etc. But none of those get applied. I'm looking at the icons in the file browser, and they're really good looking. But they're not being applied to my desktop. Any ideas?

[whiskeylover]

Anybody?

[hobo14]

I think someone already said, some sets only have some icons in certain sizes. If your panels are the wrong size, there won't be an icon available in the set.

I recommend this: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ClearlooksOSX?content=69487
it is by FAR the best looking set of icons I've seen, and works for a large range of sizes, and yes, it replaces the volume icon and icons on all those other things you mentioned.

Also, if a set doesn't apply the way you want it to, you now have the images on your disk, and you can apply them to icons manually.

[hobo14]

I think someone already said, some sets only have some icons in certain sizes. If your panels are the wrong size, there won't be an icon available in the set.

I recommend this: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/ClearlooksOSX?content=69487
it is by FAR the best looking set of icons I've seen, and works for a large range of sizes, and yes, it replaces the volume icon and icons on all those other things you mentioned.

Also, if a set doesn't apply the way you want it to, you now have the images on your disk, and you can apply them to icons manually.



Here a screenshot with that icon set.

[whiskeylover]

Thanks Hobo, those icons seem to work.

In the previous set that I used, all the icons seem to be there. And they're also of the right sizes (16, 22, 24, 32, 64, 72, 128...) I looked at the .theme file, and it also seems to be okay. I compared the file names with the default gnome theme (that works) and the file names match (like volume-high, battery-full etc) The firefox icon needed to be renamed to firefox-3.5.5, and it worked. But others seem to be good. Everything should work in theory, but doesn't. Still trying to figure out why... :-|