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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by acceptable_humor@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I have basically combined the App and Mimetype icons of Colloid, the symbolic icons of Papirus and the Folder Icons of Zorin into one theme, I present to you Uniformity.

But this is not just a simple copy paste, here's what I changed.

  1. Adapted the install script to this new structure so that it is easy to download themes with different folder colours.
  2. Recreated the Zorin folder theme is SVG and changed all the glyphs.
  3. Added over 40+ new app icons including a redesigned Flatseal Icon, Bazaar, Fragments, Eden, Musicbrainz and more.

I have made these and tested on Gnome only however they should work just fine with KDE as well. I would love for you to try it out and let me know what you'd like to see. I have laid down the groundworks for schemes which means you can adapt nord and catppuccin themes to this icon pack as well. The script works fairly well execpt the -t all flag seems to be a bit broken so I suggest installing colours individually.

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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

Btw, how to define custom categories for user directories?

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You mean the icons?

At least in KDE dolphin, you can edit any folder and set the icon as whatever you like. It'll follow the theme color too, if you use the right icon.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, category. They are mapped in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/user-dirs.dirs, but there's only 12 of them. Of which i use 4 but would like to have others too and define custom icon-names i could put in the .icons directory. In short, i want to extend them. I could reuse, for example, XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR, but then it gets the wrong icon.

They didn't really think "8 categories is enough for all" and hardcode this shit, no?

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah, no. I'm not familiar with how to do that.

But I wouldn't think so? I'm more familiar with KDE, but with it at least I've always found ways to edit some files somewhere to accomplish what I want.

So far.

For this I've just been creating folders and setting their icons manually.

[-] acceptable_humor@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

By that do you mean how to set icons for certain folders irrespective of theme? You need to use the gio command

gio set folder-name metadata::custom-icon-name icon-name

# In your case it would be something like
gio set Games/ metadata::custom-icon-name folder-games

Not only does this make it so that no matter what icon theme you use the icon will change according to the theme, but you also do not have to go icon hunting in a bunch of directories.

Edit: I just saw that you meant using XDG catergories, maybe the gio command can still help? I mean you could theoretically change any metadata field so maybe that helps.

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