ianw1974 Posted January 16, 2006 Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 A quick and easy tip for those wishing to get the Gnome Foot or KDE KMenu icons instead of the Mandriva Star. Gnome For Gnome, it's real quick and simple. In /usr/share/pixmaps, there is a symlink called mandriva.png which by default is set to: ls -l /usr/share/pixmaps/mandriva.png lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 43 Jan 13 21:48 mandriva.png -> ../../../usr/share/icons/large/mandrake.png The gnome foot pixmaps are: /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-logo-large.png /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-logo-icon.png /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-logo-icon-transparent.png I normally choose "gnome-logo-icon", but I suppose you could substitute to any of the others. All that needs to be done, is reset the symlink to what you want it to be: ln -sf /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-logo-icon.png /usr/share/pixmaps/mandriva.png Now, when you check, it will be showing as: ls -l /usr/share/pixmaps/mandriva.png lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Jan 16 19:04 mandriva.png -> /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-logo-icon.png KDE For KDE, a little more work needs to be done. KDE uses menuk-mdk.png by default, which is the star. The original is kmenu.png. The default icon set is crystalsvg, so therefore, to change: cp /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/apps/kmenu.png /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/16x16/apps/menuk-mdk.png cp /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/32x32/apps/kmenu.png /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/32x32/apps/menuk-mdk.png cp /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/48x48/apps/kmenu.png /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/48x48/apps/menuk-mdk.png cp /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/64x64/apps/kmenu.png /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/64x64/apps/menuk-mdk.png cp /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/128x128/apps/kmenu.png /usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/128x128/apps/menuk-mdk.png we just copy the kmenu.png over the top of the menuk-mdk.png and everything is now looking much nicer! :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2006 Thought I would add this here, dexter11 pointed this out in a recent post for KDE, which kind of makes things a lot more simpler: Add the following code to your kickerrc file under the KMenu section: [KMenu] KmenuUseMdvIcon=false This file is usually located here ~/.kde/share/config Many thanks once again to dexter11 for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankee Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 This is driving me nuts! I put the code under [KMenuButton_1] because I see no plain [KMenu] section...didn't work. Am I in the wrong place? I am in the right file I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Yep, create the section. It doesn't exist in 2007, so you have to create it. [KMenu] KmenuUseMdvIcon=false and restart and you're done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yankee Posted October 20, 2006 Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Ok, that worked great for my home folder. Would it work for all users if you put it in the root folder? Not root user, but root. There is a /.kde/share/config folder but no kickerrc file. This is a great fix though. Do you know where the file is that reads this rc file? I mean, some place it has the file name of the icons. If you could change that it might make it system wide also. Thanks a bunch...that star just looked so (whatever, can't think of a word to describe it). You'd think Mandriva would read this and change it! People have hated that star since day one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2006 Unsure of system-wide, can't check right now as not on my system, but will update if I find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulgarian Posted December 10, 2007 Report Share Posted December 10, 2007 guess i gotta bump this topic ... hehe well i am using mandriva 2008. i did all of the above, i copied the default kmenu.png over the mandriva one as well as added entry to the kickerrc but the icon is not chaning. i am also using a different icon set from kde-look.org but that kmenu icon doesnt change the default mandriva one. i am also using the kickoff menu so i am guessing the icons are stored in a different place. any ideas ? EDIT: I just got it... /var/lib/mandriva/kde-profiles/powerpack/share/icons/crystalsvg/64x64/apps/mdv_kmenu.png guess i just had to learn how to use find properly :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esulcer Posted December 10, 2007 Report Share Posted December 10, 2007 (edited) bulgarian, in Mandriva 2008, there is a very simple way of doing it, it does not require you to edit any file, all you got to do is the following. put the image you want to use in /.kde/share/icons/NameOfTheIconThemeYouUse/32x32/apps , this directory probably will not exist, so you have to create it rename your image/new icon kmenu.png Right click on the start/Kmenu button and choose switch to Default KDE button Your new icon should now show up. In the above /.kde/share/icons/NameOfTheIconThemeYouUse/32x32/apps path, you must insert the theme you use in place of NameOfTheIconThemeYouUse of course, it wii be something like Crystalvg, whatever you chose. I don't remember what they are exactly, and I can't help you any further, as I don't use Linux any more, I have returned to Windows, just can't get coming to the forums out of my system yet, been coming here daily for a couple of years, so it's a bit of a habit, but if you have trouble, someone else should be able to take it from here. Edited December 10, 2007 by esulcer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulgarian Posted December 10, 2007 Report Share Posted December 10, 2007 no i did that but it did not work with the kickoff memu... so i did a search to find where the original mandriva button is coz it kept going back to it even if select to use default K button. But then the kickoff menu is kind of buggy as it freeses my taskbar once in a while so i switched to the default menu for better performance and then i can change the icons in ~/.kde/share/icons/apps for it to have effect, but not using the kickoff menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 The correct place to put the image is /home/username/.kde/share/icons/NameOfTheIconThemeYouUse/32x32/apps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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