Faenza Icons for #!

corenominal · 2012-06-14 20:15:30

I noticed a good few people have made comments about the use of the GNOME icon theme in the initial Waldorf image. For what it is worth, the goal for the initial image was mainly to get the build scripts ported from Squeeze to Wheezy, and therefore I did not spend much time polishing the look 'n' feel. Anyhow, I have now had a chance to look at some more icon sets and I have settled on the Faenza icons. I was not too sure at first whether I liked them or not, but I have been using them for a couple of weeks and they have grown on me. See image below:

If anyone would like to try these icons, there is a package available in the Waldorf repository:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install faenza-crunchbang-icon-theme

el_koraco · 2012-06-14 20:18:26

Tripple H will love this. ACYL is much better suited to # in my humble opinion, but it's your show.

Stanie · 2012-06-14 20:39:29

Nice one, corenominal. I usually use some sort of faenza icon derivate on my debian sid partition.
But IMO statler elementary icon theme seems to suit crunchbang better. Any chance of adding the old theme to waldorf as well? If not, no probs. One can always use statler repo to download a few packages from it - at least for the time being wink

rhowaldt · 2012-06-14 20:49:59

they look a bit Apple-y to me. then again, what do i know, i don't use a filemanager smile

VastOne · 2012-06-14 21:03:38

^ Apple-y ... lol

I prefer LinuxLex-8 for the darker mood...

corenominal · 2012-06-14 21:10:49

rhowaldt wrote:

they look a bit Apple-y to me. then again, what do i know, i don't use a filemanager

You could be right there, Apple designs do seem to influence a lot of designers. Still, I do not necessarily think that that is always a bad thing, and as they say, there is nothing new under the sun wink

Stanie · 2012-06-14 21:13:03

^ Yeah, linuxlex is good. I also like rosa icon theme. It is based on elementary and works well on non-kde DE as well.

VastOne · 2012-06-14 21:20:24

@ Stanie - Did you see that linuxlex came out with a new icon pack? Seen here

I like them but I have modded the original too much to change.. wink

wuxmedia · 2012-06-14 21:29:54

hmm seems to have killed thunar stone dead... i'll try a reboot!

EDIT;
reboot was OK, initial impressions
sorry the network icons are weird,

looks like a drum machine/mixer.

still, it's reminded me that i can look for other icon sets!

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Stanie · 2012-06-14 21:37:27

VastOne wrote:

@ Stanie - Did you see that linuxlex came out with a new icon pack? Seen here
I like them but I have modded the original too much to change..

Thank you! They look really neat. And the folders - wow.

vicshrike · 2012-06-15 07:40:43

When I installed Waldorf and saw that the Gnome icons were set as default theme I wondered why, they are really ugly. But now, THEY have grown on me in some weird way, or maybe it is only me getting used to them. Will try the faenza icons for a while, hopefully they will grow too.

rizzo · 2012-06-15 07:50:44

Oh zang, I love Faenza. Great choice big_smile

Unia · 2012-06-15 11:09:43

Good choice!

Kexolino · 2012-06-16 12:23:04

Looks good to me smile
A question: I don't know if this is a bug or not, but in Statler, when I change the icon theme, some applications' icons don't change in tint2, like Geany and LibreOffice. Does this still happen in Waldorf?

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saneks · 2012-06-16 13:39:49

faenza is really nice. except for the trashbin icon, which a bit strange. the latest waldorf ones were a bit weird with that engraved look on the home-folders.. I liked the old statler ones as well, please include as well. I don't care so much which ones are dafault. and please monochrome ones.. yay.

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pvsage · 2012-06-16 16:27:19

Kexolino wrote:

Looks good to me
A question: I don't know if this is a bug or not, but in Statler, when I change the icon theme, some applications' icons don't change in tint2, like Geany and LibreOffice. Does this still happen in Waldorf?

I haven't used Waldorf yet (in fact, I had a rather bad experience with it...just search my recent posts for "kernel headers") but I would guess that this problem with icons in tint2 will still be there. Apparently, many applications, including Iceweasel and Terminator, consider their icon part of their branding - heck, consider the word "iconic" - and don't like having their icons changed as part of a theme.

vicshrike · 2012-06-16 16:28:54

Changed to Faenza, and it looks very good. But the icons for the network and volume disappear, there is just a hardly visible shadow of them, they work as before so there is not a problem really. Just wanted to mention it.

VastOne · 2012-06-16 16:42:21

Added to Quick References

vicshrike · 2012-06-16 17:00:55

Changed back to Gnome icons, and then I changed back to Faenza again.Now the icons for network and volume are white and grey as they are supposed to. The clipboard icon has also turned white, it did stay yellow the first time. Probably just a hiccup in my clickup.

Milozzy · 2012-06-17 07:39:05

Great improvement boss!!! Thank you very much!

Waldorf gtk theme is getting better and better too!!

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Kexolino · 2012-06-17 08:00:35

pvsage wrote:

Apparently, many applications, including Iceweasel and Terminator, consider their icon part of their branding - heck, consider the word "iconic" - and don't like having their icons changed as part of a theme.

Yep, but I think it's up to the panel somehow. Gnome2 panel recognizes the icon for Terminator for example, and so do all the docks, but tint2 and xfce panel don't.

Unia · 2012-06-17 10:08:44

Kexolino wrote:

pvsage wrote:
Apparently, many applications, including Iceweasel and Terminator, consider their icon part of their branding - heck, consider the word "iconic" - and don't like having their icons changed as part of a theme.
Yep, but I think it's up to the panel somehow. Gnome2 panel recognizes the icon for Terminator for example, and so do all the docks, but tint2 and xfce panel don't.

Tried restarting it?

EndlessDissent · 2012-06-17 13:27:32

vicshrike wrote:

Changed back to Gnome icons, and then I changed back to Faenza again.Now the icons for network and volume are white and grey as they are supposed to. The clipboard icon has also turned white, it did stay yellow the first time. Probably just a hiccup in my clickup.

This didn't work for me. I tried several times, restarting Tint2 each time I applied the new icons. Not only did the Faenza icons not work, the Gnome icons aren't working in Tint2 anymore either. Is a complete reboot necessary?

Kexolino · 2012-06-17 13:35:04

@Unia: Of course. I had the icon theme set to Faenza for several weeks, so it was restarted a lot tongue I need to log out and back in to see the change with the systray icons too anyway.

Unia · 2012-06-17 14:08:10

Kexolino wrote:

@Unia: Of course. I had the icon theme set to Faenza for several weeks, so it was restarted a lot I need to log out and back in to see the change with the systray icons too anyway.

Oke tongue Some applications also define their systray icons themselves. You can search through their folders, most are in /usr/share/<application>

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