Installing Icon Themes

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Icon themes customise the appearance of your desktop environment. An icon theme will change the appearance of your toolbars, your folders and your filetype pictures. Installing icons in KDE and GNOME is slightly different. Also certain themes will work well in GNOME and not in KDE, and some will work well in KDE and not in GNOME. The FreeDesktop.org has an 'Icon Naming Specification' which will hopefully solve this problem, but at the moment not many icon themes are taking advantage of this.

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Installation on openSUSE 10.2

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Install icons in KDE

1. Download an icon theme for KDE

Go to KDE-Look
Use the Content sidebar to filter Icons
Download an icon theme. This will be a tar.gz file.

2. Install the theme

- K Menu -> Configure Desktop -> Appearance and Themes -> Icons

Click on 'Install New Theme...'
Either:
- Drag and drop the icon theme archive onto the text box
- OR
- Click the 'Open' button and navigate to your icon theme archive
Click 'OK'
Select your new icon theme from the list
Click 'Apply' to see the changes

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Install icons in GNOME

1. Download an icon theme for GNOME

Go to GNOME-Look
Use the Content sidebar to filter Icons
Download an icon theme. This will be a tar.gz file.

2. Install the theme

- Computer Menu -> Control Centre -> Theme

Either:
- Drag and drop the icon theme archive onto the theme properties window
- OR
- Click 'Install Theme' and navigate to your icon theme archive
Click 'Theme Details'
Click on the 'Icons' Tab
Select the new icon theme from the list

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