Icon Themes

[Bob Snyder]

Andrew Conkling wrote:

>Some time ago (probably on Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:58:50 -0800)
>Bob Snyder <bob.snyder at cox.net> had occasion to say the following:
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>>Andrew Conkling wrote:
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>>>I'm pretty sure that the panel in 4.2 honours the GTK theme, so to
>>>speak.  From my (quick and ignorant) testing, the menu and panel
>>>plugins follow whatever theme I pick in UI prefs.  So, maybe, if you
>>>get the icon themes to show up, you'll be set.
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>>Yeah, I don't have any trouble with the actual themes, I have about 16
>>of them. Where does one get additional GTK icon themes?
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>Whoops, I meant the GTK *icon* themes.  BTW, in case you don't know
>this already, icon themes are completely separate from the GTK UI
>themes; you'll have to get them separately (most of the time).  Not
>sure if you knew this already or not, so I thought I'd point it out.  I
>don't know where to get more icon themes; I have the one I want from its
>own site.... :-)  However, I bet you can find some on freshmeat.net or
>themedepot.org.
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>>My installation of GTK2.4 is in /usr/local. In /usr/local/share/icons 
>>there are two folders: Rodent and hicolor. hicolor doesn't show up in 
>>the list under Icon Theme, whereas ROX does so it must be looking 
>>somewhere else in addition to <prefix>/share/icons
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>IIRC, hicolor is like a fallback option for absent icons in your (icon)
>theme of choice.  Something like that, point being that I'm pretty sure
>it's not supposed to show up in the Icon Themes list.  Since you have
>only two themes in <prefix>/icons, I'm pretty sure when you add more,
>you'll find the problem solved.
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>FWIW, I'd try starting with a big theme (e.g. Crux, Amaranth, Nuvola) to
>see wide changes to the normal theme.
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Andrew,

I downloaded a bunch of icon themes from art.gnome.org and unzipped them 
into /usr/local/share/icons. And they seem to be working. Some of them 
don't support all the icons, but I guess that's to be expected. At least 
I have an idea how it's supposed to work now.

Thanks for the help.

Bob S.