Do you want to have a bit of KDE4 right now? Oxygen icons

[rubengonc]

Well....as I love you all, this is a gift for who wants to test the new kde4 icons aka "oxygen icon theme". NOTE that this iconset is in development, so there arent icons for every app, and they arent the final ones, but I already love them

Here it is how to install them: (I would do an ebuild, but kde devs dont want the icons to be distributed etc etc..ok..we dont mind:P)
NOTE: you need Inkscape!!!

First of all, we'll download the latest icons in kde's svn (type in a terminal):

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$ svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/playground/artwork/Oxygen


Then:

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$ cd Oxygen/theme/svg


Now we need to download this script, to convert the icons from .svg
to .png (I found this script in AUR from ArchLinux):

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$ wget http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kdeicons-oxygen-svn/kdeicons-oxygen-svn/generate_oxy_theme.sh


Now we are going to download a blue version of the folder icons (as it looks better):

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$ wget http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kdeicons-oxygen-svn/kdeicons-oxygen-svn/folder_blue_empty.svg.gz


Lets extract them:

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$ gzip -d folder_blue_empty.svg.gz


Lets copy them:

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$ cp folder_blue_empty.svg filesystems/folder_empty.svg
$ cp folder_blue_empty.svg filesystems/folder_open.svg


Now we need to fix some name related things:

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$ mv actions/small/down.svg actions/small/down_small.svg
$ mv actions/small/up.svg actions/small/up_small.svg
$ mv actions/small/forward.svg actions/small/forward_small.svg


Now lets run the script to convert the files (YOU NEED INKSCAPE!!!):

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$ bash generate_oxy_theme.sh


Now:

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$ cd ../oxygen


Run this to remove unnecessary files:

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$ find . -name .svn -exec chmod +w -R {} +
$ find . -name .svn -exec rm -R {} +


Now you need to get root acess:

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$ su


Lets create the dir where the icons will be placed:

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mkdir -p /usr/kde/3.5/share/icons/oxygen


Now lets move the icons there:

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mv * /usr/kde/3.5/share/icons/oxygen


Now the icons are installed!!! Go to the KDE Control Center->Appearance & Themes->Icons and choose "Oxygen_new" in the list!....and you are done!

Hope you like! Here is a screenshot of the icons in my desktop:

[img=http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/3360/oxygenri3.th.png]

[M8tRiX]

I'd love to test KDE4 Out.

I'll test it out this weekend and report back.

Cheers Dude.

PS : I take it i can emerge Inkscape ?

[kennylog]

looks good, i hope 4.0 doesn't change too much it's about perfect now imo

[ja5on]

Are these the icons you are talking about http://www.oxygen-icons.org/?cat=3

[rubengonc]

YES they are:P

[rubengonc]

and you can have them now easily:

http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=1

[ja5on]

and you can have them now easily:

http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=1

I must admit. I 'm not all that excited about them. they just seem to emulate OSX and other such icons. Dont missunderstand me, they are very good. but just dont float my boat.

Regards

ja5on

[rubengonc]

I understand....anyways the icon theme i made is a conjunction of the best parts of some icon themes:p so you may still try it.

And an icon theme is not only "how it looks". First...for me it has nothing to do with OSX icons, second, the objective of this icon theme is to create a well looking, consistent looking, default icon theme for next KDE release.

Try the theme...you will see it is not that bad...you just have to download the tarball and install it using kcontrol...two clicks. And you can reverse back to your old icons anyway:P