Nice collection of icon sets for your Linux Desktop with installation instructions| Ubuntu PPA

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M. Zinoune

This is a nice collection of iconsets  for your Linux Desktop, so if you are a fun of changing default themes of your Linux Distribution, then this post is for you. I tried to collect the nicest and most updated icons themes existing in this moment, i included also a detailed howto install the themes for Ubuntu/ LinuxMint and Fedora based distributions.

I tested the icon themes in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin Beta1, icons did work just fine.

1- Faience:

 

2- Meliae Iconset theme

3- Gnome Colors

Ubuntu users, use the following PPA:

sudo apt-get install ppa:gnome-colors-packagers/ppa
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install gnome-colors

4- Hydroxygen_iconset

 

5- Humanity Icons Colors Version

For Ubuntu & LinuxMint use the following PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ravefinity-project/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install humanity-colors

6-  Vibrant Icons

7- Awoken 2.4 (PPA Ubuntu)

8- AdriX icon theme

9- Faenza Icons:

PPA for Faenza icons for Ubuntu:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install faenza-icon-theme

How to install and activate the new icons? (detailed for newbies 🙂

1- Download and extract the icons :

  • cd the directory where you downloaded the icons
  • Now extract directly to /usr/share/icons, example Adrix icons theme us
sudo tar xvjf AdriX-gnome.tar.bz2 -C /usr/share/icons/

If the archive is tar.bz use this command (Change icons-theme-name withe the name of the downloaded file):

sudo tar -xvzf icons-theme-name.tar.bz -C /usr/share/icons/

 For icons with PPA use the PPA above to install them.

2- Activate the icons:

You need to install Gnome Tweak Tool, use the following command:

sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool

– For Fedora and other rpm based distro, as root type the following command:

yum install gnome-tweak-tool

3- Now open Gnome tweak tool and under theme choose the icon you want

I installed humanity icons theme and chosed the blue ones, this how does it looks.

For Ubuntu users, if you want more icons themes, use the following ppa, it contains a large number of icon themes. For a complete list check launchpad

 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/themes

List of themes in this PPA can be found in this link : https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/themes

Finally, if you know any nice icon-sets, please share it with us in comments,  we will add it to the post. Thanks