Installing and Using Themes and Icons in LL

[Kirkx]

1) I would suggest to start the tutorial with examples how to install icons and themes using standard repositories in Synaptic , then explain how to do it from a ppa, and only then move on to mention .tar.gz files (those can really scare off less geeky users migrating from Windows).

a) examples of icon themes available in Synaptic: human-icon-theme, tangerine-icon-theme, oxygen-icon-theme, and many more.

b) Windows XP theme available from Noobslab ppa:

http://www.noobslab.com/2014/01/windows-...e-for.html

2) In the first post it was suggested creating ~/.icon and ~/.theme directories. The default system location should also be mentioned:

/usr/share/icons
/usr/share/themes

3) Here are two useful links:

http://web.archive.org/web/2010030522015...IconThemes

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Icons

Creating a custom icon theme is actually quite easy, as long as you don't try to build it from scratch. I didn't like Faenza icons for partitions, folders and text files so I replaced them with icons from Human and Oxygen icon themes: