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Installing Icons

Since posting my icons on the internet, a couple of people have asked how to install them, so heres the guide for each one to install them on ubuntu:

For all of them

Download your icon set for ubuntu from gnome-look.org and de-compress the icon folder, we are going to change images in this folder to the icons you want to use.
Once you’ve changed the images as described below, compress the folder to a .tar.gz file and install the icon set as usual.

Hard Drives V1 & 2

For each icon, you’ll need to make several copies of each icon and rename them in the “devices” folder in each of the folders in the main directory i.e. 128×128, scalable, . . . .

  1. Blank Hard Drive:
    drive-harddrisk.png
    drive-removable-media.png
    gnome-dev-harddisk.png
    gtk-harddisk.png
    harddrive.png
  2. USB Hard Drive:
    gnome-dev-harddisk-usb.png
    gnome-dev-removable-usb.png
    usbpendrive_unmount.png
  3. FireWire Hard Drive:
    gnome-dev-harddisk-1394.png
    gnome-dev-removable-1394.png

Open Office Icon Set

In the “mimetypes” folder in each of the folders in the main directory i.e. 128×128, scalable, . . . .

  1. Open Office Presentation Mimetype (Presentation Icon on the piece of paper):
    application-vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation
  2. Open Office Spreadsheet Mimetype (Spreadsheet Icon on the piece of paper):
    application-vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet.png
  3. Open Office Word Processor Mimetype (Word Processor Icon on the piece of paper):
    application-vnd.oasis.opendocument.text.png
  4. Open Office Drawer Mimetype (Drawer Icon on the piece of paper):
    application-vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics.png

In the “apps” folder in each of the folders in the main directory i.e. 128×128, scalable, . . . .

  1. Open Office Presentation Icon:
    ooo-impress.png
  2. Open Office Spreadsheet Icon:
    ooo-calc.png
  3. Open Office Word Processor Icon:
    ooo-writer.png
  4. Open Office Drawer Icon:
    ooo-draw.png

In the “categories” folder in each of the folders in the main directory i.e. 128×128, scalable, . . . .

  1. Office Menu Category Icon:
    applications-office.png
    gnome-applications.png
    package_office.png
    redhat-office.png
    xfce-office.png

Programming Icon Set

In the “mimetypes” folder in each of the folders in the main directory i.e. 128×128, scalable, . . . .

  1. JS:
    gnome-mime-application-javscript.png
  2. XHTML:
    gnome-mime-application-xhtml+xml.png
  3. PHP:
    gnome-mime-application-x-php.png
  4. PY:
    gnome-mime-application-x-python-bytecode.png
    gnome-mime-text-x-python.png
  5. CSS:
    gnome-mime-text-css.png
  6. C:
    gnome-mime-text-x-c.png
    gnome-mime-text-x-csrc.png
  7. C++:
    gnome-mime-text-x-c++.png
    gnome-mime-text-x-c++src.png
  8. C#:
    gnome-mime-text-x-csharp.png
  9. HS:
    gnome-mime-text-x-haskell.png
  10. JAVA:
    gnome-mime-text-x-java.png
  11. MAKE:
    gnome-mime-text-x-makefile.png
  12. ASS:
    gnome-mime-text-x-ssa.png
  13. HTML:
    text-html.png

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  3. kat says:

    Nice job

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  4. Gaunt Face says:

    Glad you find it useful :-)

    Reply

  5. Bashar says:

    Thank you for these refreshing designs. Unfortunately I don’t really understand the installation guide. I can easily rename and compress files and folders but I don’t know what is the “main directory” or where to find the “devices” and “mimetype” folders or the meaning of 128*128 scalable. It would be unfair to ask you to rewrite the whole thing but I would be grateful if you could guide me to a link where these instruction are explained in more detail. Thank you.

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  6. studentz says:

    Nice work. I used crashbit as my default icon set.
    1-The mimetypes icons for programing have the same icon image which are a symbolic link of one icon. Any suggestion ?
    2-The icons are 256*256.It’s any chance to get other resolutions?

    Thanks

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  7. Gaunt Face says:

    Heya Studentz

    Glad you like them

    1. Do you mean they are symbolic links in the crashbit icon set? If thats what you mean then what you need to do is one of the following

    1.) Delete the symbolic link and just replace with the appropriate image giving it the same name as the link

    or

    2.) Find the image the symbolic link links too, and replace that image which will in turn replace the symbolic link image

    2. I can make different sizes of the icons, what did you need it for?

    Cheers,
    Gaunt

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  8. studentz says:

    Thanks for your answer.
    1) I followed the first option, but I do not get the new icon with my c or c++ files. I’m missing something, but what?
    2) Crashbit icon set has icon folders for 16×16 128×128 and 192×192 pixels. I wonder if it is any problem replacing those mimetypes icons with your 256×256 icons (which I did)?

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  9. Gaunt Face says:

    1.) Well make 2 copies of the C images and name them “gnome-mime-text-x-c.png” and “gnome-mime-text-x-csrc.png”

    C++ should be named “gnome-mime-text-x-c++.png” and “gnome-mime-text-x-c++src.png”

    2.) Yeah you may find the icons are a little big in places, to adjust this, change the image size to the size of all the images in that directory. To do that open the image in gimp and go to image->scale image and change to the appropriate size.

    I couldn’t size it for you because all the icon sets use different resolutions for their icons.

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