Introduction
Change the way you look at your desktop. Get carefully crafted, bright and clean icon-theme for Linux.
Shadow is a flat icon-theme for gnome 3.10+. The icons have colourful circular base with long shadow.
As of version 4, it contains 980+ apps icon , 2200+ icons in total and counting.
Installation
Installation in straight forward.
From Github:
- If you are not using
Shadow
already:
mkdir -p ~/.icons
cd ~/.icons
git clone https://github.com/rudrab/Shadow.git
- From the next time:
cd ~/.icons/Shadow
git pull
Download from gnome-look.org
cd ~/.icons
mkdir -p shadow
cd shadow
tar -Jxvf <Your download path>/shadow<version>.tar.xz
Activate the theme using tweak-tool
or from command line:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme "Shadow"
Optional: Icon themes
Version 3 includes many new icons. Plus 5 gem themed places i.e. folder icons based on ruby, emerald, garnet, sapphire(default) and torquise beside a oldish square icons.
There is a python script named changecolor.py
in the parent folder. Just run this as
python3 changecolor.py
and choose your desktop environment and colour theme.
Hope you will like it.
Whats New
Version 5.0
- Ready for gnome 3.32
- Current release contains around ~1200 app icons.
version 4.0
- Ready for gnome 3.28.
- Support for desktop environment Gnome, Mate, Pantheon and Unity.
version 3.0
3 new colors for folders added. Users can choose from
ruby, emerald and sapphire colored themes for folder.
version 2.7
- 50+ new icons, mostly symbolic and emotes;
version 2.1.x
- ~60 symbolic icons for topbar.
version 2.0.x
- 60+ new icons
- Mimetypes and places icons are circular.
New Icon Request:
Don’t hesitate to contact me if you want new icons to be themed.
Please raise icon request issue here. Don’t forget to add “Icon request” label.
How to request new icons
For faster creation of new files, kindly give me those information:
If you are requesting icon foo
, kindly send me foo.desktop
file or atleast the Icon line from
the file. If you have installed the package from your package manager, it should live on
/usr/share/applications/foo.desktop
. If you have installed it yourself, most likely, it will be
either at /usr/local/applications/foo.desktop
(if you have installed it with root) or
~/.local/share/applications/foo.desktop
(if you have installed it without root).
Another very helpful thing will be providing me the default icon. You can just grab a screenshot with the icon visible and send it to me. But this is completely optional.
I will try my best to theme the icons ASAP.
Troubleshoot
Icon themed but does not appear
Most of the time, this is because, the corresponding desktop file has full path in icon name.
like, for some app named Foo, the corresponding foo.desktop
file (e.g.
/usr/share/applications/foo.desktop
) may look like:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Foo
Exec=foo
Icon=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/foo-icon.png
This can not be themed. The workaround is to copy it to your ~/.local/share/applications/
and give the icon generic path like:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Foo
Exec=foo
Icon=foo-icon
Coffee and Cookies
If you like the theme, don’t forget to upvote it at gnome-look.
If you really like the theme, please buy me a coffee using PayPal.
My Other Apps
See other apps I have developed:
-
MkBiB: BiBTeX Manager
-
Periodic Table: Periodic Table and Extra
-
Shadow: Icon theme for Gnome desktop
-
vimf90: Firtran plugin for vim