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Illüm Interactive
Asked: 2014-01-19 14:27:21 +0800 CST

How Can I Create and Configure Icon Themes in Gnome?

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I know the basics for designing icons but I have no idea how to configure and compile them into a file so that I can create a gnome icon theme out of them. Can anyone help? It would be much appreciated :) Or maybe even link me to a tutorial that explains the basics.

12.04

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    By the way, you may be interested in GNOME Look, where usually they just give an archive full of icons and go 'try and install this'    ;-)

    The existing files for the icons themes are located in /usr/share/icons.

    One of the easier ways of doing this would be to repackage a .deb file. So if you were to download a base one, like the one for the gnome-icon theme, you could then modify it as detailed here.

    You first need to extract the deb file in terminal, make & change to the directory you want to extract it to:

    mkdir icondev
cd icondev

    Then extract the deb file:

    ar x /PATH/TO/PACKAGE.deb

    This will extract the following files:

    debian-binary control.tar.gz data.tar.gz

    And make your modifactions. Make sure you change the package name (in control.tar.gz, in control), and where it will install to (in data.tar.gz, anything inside that), or it will conflict with already installed or future installs of software.

    The icon theme will work as long as it inside the /usr/share/icons folder, and in the same format as other icon themes. The name of the theme is the name of its folder within /usr/share/icons, and what is in the icon.theme file.

    You can then repackage it with this - use this command EXACTLY:

    ar r NEW-PACKAGE.deb debian-binary control.tar.gz data.tar.gz

    Then you can cross you fingers and install it with (this should detail any conflicts):

    sudo dpkg -i /PATH/TO/NEW-PACKAGE.deb

    You should be able to remove it with:

    sudo apt-get remove NEW-PACKAGE-NAME
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