Holly Bostick wrote: >Dave S schreef: > > >>Holly Bostick wrote: >> >> >> ><snip> > > >>cd to the directory >> >>bash-2.05b$ ls >>36x36 README index.theme makePngFromSvg.sh scalable >>bash-2.05b$ cat README >>This is a mostly complete svg icon set based on SGI's Indigo Magic Desktop. >> >> >> ><snip> > > > >>>Some themes available on kde-look.org and (less often) >>>art.gnome.org or gnome-look.org need to be compiled first (they're >>>actually source tarballs rather than gnome-installable themes). >>> >>> >>> >>I did not know that, but the README does not suggest compiling & there >>is no make file >> >> > >I understand that--- but that script > >makePngFromSvg.sh > >must be in there for some reason, mustn't it? If you didn't have to >convert the .svg files, why would you need it? Because you were maybe >still using GNOME 2.4? Yeah, right. Well, OK, it's possible that the >theme has been around for a long time, from before GNOME fully supported >SVG. I take it back. > >Anyway, why don't you just make a folder in your ~/.themes folder, with >the name of the theme, and drag the 36x36, index.theme, and scalable >items into it. That's all the theme manager does anyway. > >Alternatively, open a file manager or file-roller as root, and extract >the same files to a "theme_name" folder in /usr/share/icons, which is >where the theme would be installed if it was installed as part of the >system. > >One of those two is probably a better idea anyway; the theme manager can >be kind of a bear and doesn't usually work well for me anyway. > >HTH, >Holly > > OK I will give it a go as you suggested :)
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