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Ok, i am running a gnome 2.12 DE on Ubuntu Breezy 5.10. The trouble is the icons included just dont do it. I would like to install the icon set from the gentoo website. I downloaded the complete set and extracted it into "/usr/share/pixmaps". I can now change an icon by right clicking and selecting change icon. However, i dont want to change every icon by hand. Is there any way to add the icons the the theme manager??
So I'm at my mom's for a week with nothing but windows right now, so I'm mostly working off memory.
The icon themes are installed using the compressed folder. I thought there a button to click for installing themes from the theme manager, but since you're asking it's proably not that obvious. I think there were some things that got installed by dragging the compressed folder into the theme manager window, but that might have been something for when I was playing with KDE.
so you install icon only themes the same as full themes? cool, didnt know that. Well in that case it seems like a more complicated problem. When i try to install the theme (either by dragging it into the window or clicking the install theme button) it says the file format is not supported, its tar.bz2.
I thought they used the compressed folder. Just to make sure, are you installing it in the tab with the icon choices, not the whole themes? Other than that I'm bit stuck on ideas without being able to look at my own computer.
GNOME icon themes live in ~/.icons but the Gentoo ones don't come as an icon theme by default I don't think. Search at gnome-look.org or something and you should be able to find a package that is setup to d what you want out of the box.
i downloaded an icon set from gnome-look.org and it worked fine. I just installed it from the tar.gz using the "install theme" button. However, the gentoo set still does not work. Even when i swiched it from tar.bz2 to tar.gz. I think it is because the gentoo icons are in .png format and the other theme was not. If anyone knows of a proper theme based on the gentoo icon set please tell me.
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