On Monday, February 8, 2021 11:48:21 AM MST René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> >Then I go to install new icon packs and there are TONS of them. Not all
> >complete.
> >
> >Can anyone recommend a well-rounded icon package that matches the look of
> >the icons that come with all my apps?
>
> As you noticed, most icon themes are not complete - in my eyes that's more
> likely to be true for the themes I find more appealing. But themes can fall
> back on others to provide the missing icons, something you can tweak
> yourself too. This works ... mostly.
>
> Personally I use a grayscale colour palette based on the "graphite" look of
> Mac OS X with the Ciment icon theme by Laurent Baumann. I've set that theme
> to inherit the "osx", "oxygen" and "hicolor" icon themes; the "osx" theme
> itself inherits "oxygen", "gnome" and "hicolor".
>
> The "oxygen" theme is very complete but does look a bit cheesy nowadays but
> at least it's not overly simplified and fashionably flat like Breeze.
>
> Be aware though that you'll need to trash your ~/.cache/icon-cache.kcache
> regularly because (AFAIU) some app will have seen fit to force the use of
> icons from Breeze. Seems to happen mostly with icons shown in file
> navigator/selection widgets.
>
> R
Thank your for the insights. How does one tweak a theme to inherit icons?
