From 1159643f0305d048149e87c67bda012239216688 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Wagner Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 14:03:47 +0200 Subject: desktop/tango-icon-theme: Initial import --- desktop/tango-icon-theme/README | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) create mode 100644 desktop/tango-icon-theme/README (limited to 'desktop/tango-icon-theme/README') diff --git a/desktop/tango-icon-theme/README b/desktop/tango-icon-theme/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..4be3019d816a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/desktop/tango-icon-theme/README @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +The Tango Icon Theme is a desktop environment independent set of icons +following the new icon name specification. + +In order to build the package you need the XML::Simple perl module +and icon-naming-utils, both of which are available from SlackBuilds.org +Also, be sure you have all of the latest packages from /patches on +the Slackware mirror installed, especially gnome-icon-theme. + +For XFce, it should work as is: (Settings Manager -> User Interface). +Note that Xfce's Rodent icon theme inherits Tango icons by default, so some +of your icons (the ones that are currently falling back to the hicolor theme) +will change to the Tango theme simply by installing it. + +GNOME and KDE users need to do some changes. + +To change the default GNOME icon theme execute: + + gconftool-2 --direct --config-source \ + xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults --type string \ + --set /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme Tango + +To change a user specific GNOME icon theme execute: + + gconftool-2 --type string --set /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme Tango + +KDE users need to perform further steps. +First, edit /usr/share/icons/Tango/index.theme: + + sed -i "s/Context=\w*/Context=FileSystems/g" index.theme + +and place a symlink to Tango either in your user specific or KDE's default +location (see /opt/kde/bin/kde-config --path icon). You should then be able +to select the icon theme from within the control center. + +KDE users will get slightly better looking icons if they add the option + --enable-png-creation +to the configure part of the SlackBuild. + +If you are not using any settings manager (fluxbox,blackbox...), you can add +the following to your .gtkrc-2.0 (create it if it does not exist). + + gtk-icon-theme-name="Tango" -- cgit v1.2.3