Icons

[stillkill]

I have a new set of icons for my desktop and would like to just swap.. where are my icons? and how do i find them so that I may replace them?

[disturbedite]

Re: Icons

one of the easiest ways would be to go to: System Settings --> Appearance --> Icons -->click "Install New Theme".

[stillkill]

Re: Icons

when i downloaded icons...they didnt come with a icon theme file to install, just a bunch of icons..so i'm guessing i would have to replace one at a time..

[awakatanka]

Re: Icons

You can put them in /home/blablabla/.kde/share/icons in the right map you have installed atm. Our under /usr/share/icons

[stillkill]

Re: Icons

doesnt seem right, I'm useing festy fawn..7.04 .. I dont find any icons where u said they would be.

[disturbedite]

Re: Icons

the way i described above should work. but in other cases, awakatanka said it right. place them (make sure they're in their own folder) in /home/user/.kde/share/icons.

the . before a folder makes it hidden, make sure you have konqueror set to show hidden files.

[claydoh]

Re: Icons

Unfortunately, icon creators don't always make easy to install icon themes. Sometimes, the icon installer will install it directly from the archive file, just try pointing the installer to the tar.gz file. Sometimes you have to run a script located inside the extracted folder (usually there are directions for this) and sometimes a theme has to be compiles like a program is compiled. Many of the items in the Icon Themes section of kde-look.org have instructions on the description page on how to install. But if the theme archive contains a file called either index.desktop or index.theme, it can be installed via the icon installer applet

I assume that because icons can be cross-platform.cross-distro/cross-Desktop in scope, icon artists probably simply cannot cover everyone The DIY nature of Linux ia one of the good points of the OS, but also can be a downside for new users unfortunately

[auxiliary.chipmunk]

Re: Icons

Hi I have been using Linux, for about 4 months, and Kubuntu for about 3. First of all it is great, much more transparent and simple than SUSE.

I am finding that your comments are true about the icon providers, they say you have to run a file in the tar ball and indeed I have found the file but I don't know the command to action it I have tried 'run' 'sh' and just typing it with out a pre command. All to no avail.

Can you help

here is the site :

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=14788

Tim

[auxiliary.chipmunk]

Re: Icons

Aha!

there is a hidden folder in /home/username/.kde/share/icons for those that are a green to linux as me the fullstop makes this folder and any contents hidden.

When I found this out I tried to go to the Icon folder withing the hidden ".kde" folder but I didnt have a icons folder, so i created it.

Then I unpacked the downloaded Icon sets to this folder.

Then I could choose the icon set from the systems setting menu, under apperance/icons.

Great (only after all this I didn't like the icon set... lol but now I can carry on looking)

[disturbedite]

Re: Icons

Aha!

there is a hidden folder in /home/username/.kde/share/icons for those that are a green to linux as me the fullstop makes this folder and any contents hidden.

if you had read the whole post you would have seen i already mentioned that before...