Hi,

I have done some search on google, kde and here websites and found nothing answering to my question.

I want to change the icons set of KDE4, so I downloaded a theme from kde-look.org, and it changed most of them, though many it couldn't (it's a kde3 theme). I then decided to change the remaining icons myself.

Well, that didn't work. I know the default blue simple folder icon is located in "places" subfolder, so I renamed the folder.png and took another one named folder.png. Nothing changed. I then right-clicked a folder, clicked to change the icon, in the list of icons to select the folder icon I want, the new folder.png icon shows like the default blue folder, though when I select it and apply it on the folder, it changes to the new image I want. Weird. Of course it changes only the ones I manually right-click. I cannot get all simple folders changed by default.

So where is that blue folder icon so that I can get it out of my view and use another one to match my color theme? There are very very few complete icons set for KDE4 yet.

tnx

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http://cathbard.com/icons.html
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This worked for me with the Buuf icon theme from kde-look.org:

1. In the root directory of the icon theme, make a symlink called "scalable" that's linked to the 128x128 folder:

ln -s 128x128/ scalable

2. In each folder (128x128, 64x64, etc), copy the folder.png icon from filesystems and paste into the mimetypes folder. Then rename it to inode-directory.png

3. Add the following to the end of the index.theme file:

[scalable/apps]
Size=128
Context=Applications
Type=Threshold

[scalable/devices]
Size=128
Context=Devices
Type=Threshold

[scalable/filesystems]
Size=128
Context=FileSystems
Type=Threshold

[scalable/mimetypes]
Size=128
Context=MimeTypes
Type=Threshold

4. Switch your icon theme and then switch back, and the folder icons should be replaced.

Hey great, that's the workaround I was looking for. I will give it a try and see if that works.

Otherwise, true KDE4 icon sets are slowly coming out, so by the summer there should be a few of them fully functional out of the package. But I will surely try with the one I want to use.

tnx!

There is a script available now that converts KDE3 icon sets to KDE4. It converts most, but not all icons. It's much better than just editing the index.theme file though.

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show...?content=86949