icon themes

[Jason Keltz]

Hi Jasper,

Thanks for the tip (thanks also to the others for their helpful feedback).
If I try to download the xfce-extra-icons-* package from this site and
install into sysdir/share/icons, I see two things happen:

1) Under "user interface" in the settings, and "icon theme", only "Rodent"
shows now and not Rodent AND hicolor as it did before.
2) none of the new icon themes show up - Would this be because there are
no "index.theme" files in each of the
Amaranth/Gorilla/Lush/Noia/Nuvola/Wasp/gnome directories?

It's a pity that KDE/Gnome/Xfce need to have the icon themes modified for
each environment.  It would be great if the themes were more generic, and
they just worked on any desktop environment.

While I would still like to get this working, I'm wondering if "icon
themes" is what I really wanted.  Essentially, I have users who say that
when they want to add their own apps to the panel, they don't have enough
variety in the icons that are listed.  I figured that by adding icon
themes, I would have more variety, but I don't think I was right there.
Adding themes seems likely to provide different representations of the
same icons....?

Thanks,

Jason.

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:

> Jason Keltz wrote:
> > I can't really seem to find much information on icons in Xfce.  From
> > what I understand, Xfce is using the freekdesktop.org icon framework.  I
> > have installed the "hicolor" theme from freekdesktop.org.  If I want to
> > increase the number of icons on my system so that the users have more
> > selection to choose from when adding entries to the panel, do I need to
> > download Xfce specific icon themes, or do I go to something like
> > http://art.gnome.org/themes/icon and download away?
> >
>
> There is some information here:
>
> http://xfce.loculus.nl/index.php?wiki=IconThemes
>
> That site also has some extra icons for several well-known icon themes
> that make them work better with Xfce.
>
> Also, you should check out the theme section on forum.xfce.org, there
> were several icon themes posted there.
>
> 	Jasper
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