Re: [Usability] GNOME default icons

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

The arrows among other icons, are stock GTK+ icons, and included in GTK+
itself. Most of these icons are not overridden in the icon theme, as one
might expect, despite the fact that similar icons exist in the theme.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172607

The above bug has been filed about this, however, I have not had the
time to get around to fixing it for 2.14.0 as I was working on more
major changes, which unfortunately didn't get to go in either. These
changes however, are in fact, scheduled to go in 2.15. Along with these
changes, these icons will be renamed appropriately, and override the
stock GTK+ icons.

And, as Calum stated, gnome-icon-theme is in GNOME CVS, and not
available as a simple tarball theme download on a theme site.

-- dobey


On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 08:46 -0800, Bill Wohler wrote:
> I'm a bit confused. On my Debian system, which seems to be about GNOME
> 2.12, the arrow in:
> 
>   /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/stock/navigation/stock_left.png
> 
> is blue, as are all the other stock_left.png images on my system.
> 
> However, the arrows in Galeon, Nautilus, and other GNOME apps are
> green. I thought the green arrows were in GNOME 1 and the blue arrows
> are in GNOME 2. Is that true? If so, why do you suppose I'm seeing the
> green arrows in my apps? If not, then from what directory do you think
> my apps are pulling the icons?
> 
> Also, there are a dazzling number of icon and desktop themes on the
> GNOME site, but none are branded "Default" so I could check for
> myself. What is the URL to the current default set of icons?
> 
> Thanks!
>