alex diavatis | March 11, 2013

New Default Folder Icons for GNOME 3.8?!?

This post was made with another stylesheet and it might be messed up!

folderI did an update to my GNOME Installation an hour ago, then I open Nautilus and I thought I saw some different colors in Folder Icons. I thought I didn’t see well, and Nautilus crashed after 10″ before I realize what was happening.

I reopen and.. I thought it was some bug and GNOME had load a different Icon Set than default. or something..

Before

The lovely Icon Set of GNOME is gone :(

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After

Some different saturation

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The confirmation :)

Seriously I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. However Git can’t lie :)

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Bug 693610

Jakub Steiner pushed the changes to Master saying:

- compensate for the overall greyness of the theme: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693610

The bug report (one of the many about GNOME Icons) made by Reda Lazri and the discussion is a bit interesting (and small), if you want to read it.

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  • Brian Bentsen

    Much nicer. Now for all the application icons :o)

    • JJ

      I don’t think any DE/OS will change the app icons. They will change only what they own. Thats only in the third party icon themes.

      Fantastic move Gnome; way to go!!

  • Alby

    gr8

  • http://twitter.com/alkayman Alex Kay

    Yes finally! though I still think a bit more work could have gone into it rather than just changing the color.

  • Stefan Prasse

    love it

  • Enrico

    very nice work

  • Michael Mistretta

    Won’t make me switch from Faience/Faenza but still looks a lot better than default, good job.

    • http://www.facebook.com/Rajesh.KSV Rajesh Ksv

      True. Much Much better than default ones but still far from good.

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  • rogg

    is this window boarder the standard gnome 3 boarder? what is the name of the icon theme when i want to use it under unity?

    • alex285

      Everything is default but the fonts, which I think I have Open Sans. You have to download it from Git. There isn’t in Ubuntu 13.04

      • alex285

        Hmm, I can’t see, but I think isn’t open sans, is the default Cantarell fonts

        • http://fitoschido.wordpress.com/ Fitoschido

          It’s Cantarell in GS, Open Sans for apps.

          • alex285

            I will come back to you when I boot again to that :)

  • http://twitter.com/pahnin phanindra

    I may switch from Faience Icons to Default ones.. They are nice, I always wondered why they wouldn’t change the default icons set..

  • http://arsvirilis.blogspot.it/ Edoardo Maria Elidoro

    Nice! Can you point me to the git commit so I can try now those icons?
    Thanks!

    • alex285
      • http://arsvirilis.blogspot.it/ Edoardo Maria Elidoro

        Ok, I’m very, very stupid. I looked at that very page for like five minutes and it didn’t even occurred me that I could scroll. Found the commit, but I’m kind of new to this stuff, is there a simple way to have them or it’s better for me to wait? I thought that it would be some kind of .tar package with the icon theme inside it.

        (Anyway, thanks and keep up with the good work!)

        • alex285

          Give me 5 mins to upload them to my dropbox and I ll give you the link
          Alternatively If you don’t want to clone the repo, you can get them with wget from
          https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-icon-theme/tree/gnome

          • http://arsvirilis.blogspot.it/ Edoardo Maria Elidoro

            I owe you a beer or something similar, really. If you can point me a way to download them all with wget and some magic options I’ll do that so you don’t have to upload everything ;)

        • alex285

          You can get them from: https://www.dropbox.com/s/27c5qvxhso6c2sx/icons.zip

          Replace the files in /usr/share/icons *but keep backups* ..or better copy them into ~/.icons.

          • http://arsvirilis.blogspot.it/ Edoardo Maria Elidoro

            Thanks, thanks, thanks. And again: thanks.
            You’re great :D

          • alex285

            lol, yes I am great, I did a zip and I put it in my dropbox, amazing me ;)

          • http://arsvirilis.blogspot.it/ Edoardo Maria Elidoro

            Well, you did it for free and for a person you don’t even know. That’s why you’re great. It’s not always important what we do, but also why we do it.

  • Justinas Žiaunys

    Old folder icon colour for Gnome gtk theme fits more, in my opinion

    • rw

      Yeah, the brown is out of place. I was up for a change, but this didn’t make things better.

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  • Philip Witte

    Finally! Still wish they where blue, but this is a MUCH needed improvement to the overall aesthetics… now if only the panel was slightly transparent…

  • Dave

    Not too sure about these I like the old ones

  • kostaskaz

    Good riddance, doubt someone will miss the 90s look.

  • http://twitter.com/varemenos Adonis K.

    That’s great for gnome, but I will still be using Faience

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  • http://twitter.com/artbgz Arturo

    Finally!

    The first thing I do on a fresh install of Gnome is change the icon theme.

  • Gris

    Much better than old ones. I always thought that GNOME lacks color.

  • Craig

    Loving dat manilla.

  • Gren

    ouch, again Ubuntu brown?
    Grey and Brown don’t go well together, if color have to change, choose another one.