Where are the icons?

[Fernando]

I'm trying to configure my Cairo dock and need to change the icon for Transmission since Cairo shows only a question mark. I'd like to link it to the one the system is using and looked for it at /usr/share/icons but I got lost there. Many folders but no icons that I could find, only .svg files that I don't know how to use. I thought I would find .png files or similar.
So, does anybody know how/where to find the icons, kind of like when one is editing the apps at the K menu and you change the icons and you can actually choose among lots of them?
Thanks!

[Wheel Inventor]

Icons are...

By the Icon Theme Specification: http://standards.freedesktop.org/ico...ec-latest.html

Icon file

An icon file is an image that can be loaded and used as an icon. The supported image file formats are PNG, XPM and SVG. PNG is the recommended bitmap format, and SVG is for vectorized icons. XPM is supported due to backwards compability reasons, and it is not recommended that new themes use XPM files. Support for SVGs is optional.


Directory Layout

Icons and themes are looked for in a set of directories. By default, apps should look in $HOME/.icons (for backwards compatibility), in $XDG_DATA_DIRS/icons and in /usr/share/pixmaps (in that order). Applications may further add their own icon directories to this list, and users may extend or change the list (in application/desktop specific ways).In each of these directories themes are stored as subdirectories. A theme can be spread across several base directories by having subdirectories of the same name. This way users can extend and override system themes...

The Breeze icons are at /usr/share/icons/breeze/.



They are svg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics

[Fernando]

Thanks so much!
Now, I have installed the Faenza icons set but there's no faenza folder in /usr/share/icons. I googled a little and it seems they could be at home/.icons but I have no such folder.

[Fernando]

Found them under home/$username/.kde/share/icons/kfaenza