icon themes

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Jason Keltz wrote:
> 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?
> 

Oh, yeah, they are _extra_ icons, you need to install the regular icon 
themes of that name as well.

> 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.
> 

Xfce tries to use Gnome icons as well, but most available themes are not 
very complete.

> 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....?
> 

Yes, that is true. Perhaps you could extract only the 48x48 icons and 
put those in one location.

	Jasper

> 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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