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I recently had a good discussion with some of the guy's at my LUG as to the "why's and wherefore's" of gnome Vs kde.

 

They explained their view with polite, understandable, salient reasoning.

 

Ok think's me, I'll look at gnome and have a go.

 

Thus far, I've manage to change a couple of thing's (background and theme), but Im struggling to change some other stuff - icon's etc.

 

I've sort of managed to change the icon's a bit, but I'd like to use the "glass marble" type icon's.

 

I've managed to download and extract them from here.

 

I've made a seperate directory at /usr/share/icons/gentoo glass icons. Great.

 

Except, when I try and change an icon I get the image and it's very small and virtually unusable. Which matter's as I can't find anyway of "zooming" icon's like you can with kde

 

Any idea's please?

 

regards

 

John

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If it's not an icon theme then you can put the dir anywhere.

 

rt-clk the icon you want to change and choose properties. If it's a desktop icon, Select Custom Icon and use nautilus ot gthumb to drag and drop the new icon into the address bar of the custom icons properties dialog.

 

if it's a panel icon, when you've opened the properties you'll see the current icon in the middle, and you can drag and drop the new one onto the old.

 

To make desktop icons bigger, rt-clk>Stretch Icon

 

gnome does not animate (zoom) icons. Supposedly if you use Velocity as the FileMgr/DesktopMgr instead of nautilus it will, but I never tried.

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OK, so I tried to have a go, changing the panel icon's and with the properties open I changed the evolution icon, but it still look's too small and unreadable. Hence I reverted back.

 

Now, as using a marble looking type icon, the "marble looking" sphere part is going to take up some of the icon space, and that'd result in having the actual app image being smaller (as in unreadable).

 

So perhap's I'd need to change the size of the panel icon's first (and maybe make the app/taskbar transparent).

 

How's that done with gnome - It's easy with kde, but on the basis that (according to "those with the knowledge") gnome is better.

 

I still can't see it yet.

 

regards

 

John

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So if I want to find an iconset that should work within gnome, is it that they are specific for kde or gnome? if so, does anyone have a link to gnome iconset's?

 

Also, if I look at the different iconsets that I've already got how do I tell what size to use ? (bearing in mind that I'm using noia icon's with kde, but when I look to see what's available in that directory, I have 32x32, 48x48, etc etc)

 

regards

 

John

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The gnome-panel icon size will adjust as necessary depending on the size of the panel. I use the biggest I can find, normally 128x128. There's is no independent setting just for the icons.

 

kde and gnome icon themes are not compat.

 

http://art.gnome.org/

http://gnome-look.org/

http://www.themedepot.org/itemdetail.php4?id=1387

http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=20

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