When reporting missing or wrong looking icons make sure to follow these steps so I can resolve it faster and efficiently:
Install screenfetch to give me information of your distro and Desktop Environment.
sudo apt install screenfetch
sudo pacman -S screenfetch
or any equivalent
Copy/paste the code you will receive or provide manually on what distro and desktop environment you are on and what version.
Add the relevant launcher information, applications use files with the extension .desktop as launchers like Firefox, Mint menu, etc. and these launchers are stored in
/usr/share/applications (there might be a /kde or /kde4 folder for KDE apps)
User-installed binaries and Google Chrome apps install their launchers here:
/home/$USER/.local/share/applications
Simply open these .desktop files with any text editor or sublime-text and copy and paste the line that says
Icon=...
to your issue or request.
Add a description of the software and a link where to download it and/or installation instructions if necessary.
Sometimes the application will already have an icon. Provide the link where the original icon can be found. I prefer them to be in SVG. A png is a last resort.
Add screenshots of the missing icon and the instances where it's displayed like: menus, taskbars, panels, notifications, etc.
REMARK : Some applications use absolute paths in their launchers, as such even when we add the icon the system will not load it, you can use Hardcoded Icon Fixer to resolve this problem as explained above.
You can download the icons from Sourceforge. A bug in github prevents me to host them here. Too many icons.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sardi/files/
Check the changelog in the Sardi folder.
Request for new icons can be posted here. (scroll to bottom)
News will be updated here.
Questions can be posted here.
Bugs can be reported here.
erik.dubois@gmail.com
Checkout articles and tutorials at http://www.erikdubois.online
Scroll down to HOW TO FIX HARDCODED ICONS
# Latest news
#2017 01 01
Sardi version 9 has been released.
19 icon sets as core and 34 icon sets as the result of your scripting called Sardi Extra. You have 6 different looks for your application icons and 10 kinds of folders you can use in your file manager. There are scripts to change the application icons and there are scripts to change the folder icons and there are scripts to change everything.
You can see what Sardi icons look like on your Linux Mint system.
or you can see what Sardi icons look like when you are using the scripts and make your own personal creations. The result of these scripts are named Sardi Extra.
The Sardi icons can be found on Sourceforge
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sardi/files/
The Sardi Extra icons can be found on github
https://github.com/erikdubois/Sardi-Extra
#2016 12
In the meantime Linux Mint 18.1 is out. Most of these movies still apply to Linux Mint 18.1 as well as to Linux Mint 18.
Content Playlist of more than 100+ short movies to make your desktop eye-candy Sardi icon set playing its part therein.
I started a new kind of project named Make it yourself icon theme.
You can check all those articles on this address.
http://erikdubois.be/category/sardi-icons/
or
#2016 09 06
Content Playlist of 80+ short movies to make your desktop eye-candy Sardi icon set playing its part therein.
I started a new kind of project named Make it yourself icon theme.
You can check all those articles on this address.
http://erikdubois.be/category/sardi-icons/
or
New icon set has been added coming from the breeze icon theme from KDE/Plasma world. The collection counts now 19 icon sets.
You can make many variations on this icon theme as you will see in this article.
http://erikdubois.be/make-icon-theme-sardi-dark-breeze-possible-combination/
Content Playlist of 40+ short movies to make your desktop eye-candy Sardi icon set playing its part therein.
About 40 short movies to completely change your desktop experience for linux. Updating, kernel installation, applications installation, variety settings, firefox and google search, lastpass and xmarks, sardi icon theme, fixing icons that never change, theme installation of vertex and arc, applets, dropbox, zsh, printer, aureola conky, super ultra flat numix remix icons, plank, personal settings of cinnamon, gimp scripts added, dropbox fix, keyboard fix for music, ...
Customisation : https://github.com/erikdubois/Ultimate-Linux-Mint-18-Cinnamon
Sardi icons: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sardi/files/
Super Ultra Flat Numix Remix : https://github.com/erikdubois/Super-Ultra-Flat-Numix-Remix
Aureola conky : https://github.com/erikdubois/Aureola
New icon set Sardi Arc has been added - total of 18 icon sets with one download
You can download it in this version. https://sourceforge.net/projects/sardi/files/sardi-icons-7.1-2.tar.gz/download
You can download it in this version. https://sourceforge.net/projects/sardi/files/sardi-icons-7.1-2.tar.gz/download
I skipped logging in detail since it would have taken me more time to log than to actually change things but here is what I did.
Made it obvious in the numbering that 6.2 and 7 version are completely different.
Changed the structure of the Sardi icons folders
From scalable
to
16 22 24 32 48 64 128 and scalable.
This will allow current and future problems to be solved. Icons that do not 'behave' properly can get an other icon at the desired width. This gives more flexibility to the end-user to pop in an icon they like.
Choose to go for white icons in the toolbar : network and sound icons
Tried to minimize the MB by inheriting to one basic theme Sardi. A lot of work with only 5MB less out of 134 MB.
Checked to see if I was missing icons that the Numix icon team had created in the mean time in the various subsets of Sardi.
During my testing I did not install Numix (used as inherit for Sardi) and checked that all icons were in Sardi in the various subsets.
Changed the numix icons I did not like. Mostly making some of the icons white instead of blue and green. Goal was an uniform white look for the symbolic icons.
Again the icon set was retested on the various operating systems.
All distro's have a way to change the icons where you actually start your menu or applications list.
There are 17+ icons to start your distro.
In the folder places of the major subsets (sardi, sardi flat, sardi flexible, sardi ghost flexible and sardi mono) there are a number of start-here-symbolic icons.
Rename the one you like to 'start-here-symbolic.svg' (without the number).
Delete the icon-theme.cache in the subset you have choosen e.g. sardi or you will see nothing.
Change the theme once more to see the effect.
Other distro's you can point to the picture that is shown in the menu. They do not need to change the name or delete the icon-theme.cache.
- Archlinux and all its supported desktop environments
- Budgie
- Cinnamon
- Deepin
- Enlightenment
- Gnome
- Gnome Flashback
- Sorry NO KDE as of yet
- LXDE
- LXQt
- Mate
- Xfce
- Centos
- Debian
- Elementary
- Fedora
- Linuxmint
- Cinnamon
- Mate
- XFCE
- Debian
- Mageia
- Manjaro
- Bspwm
- Budgie
- Cinnamon
- Deepin
- E20
- Gnome
- I3
- Jwm
- Lxqt
- Mate
- Xfce
- Opensuse Gnome
- Peppermint
- Solus
- Ubuntu
- Ubuntu
- Ubuntu Mate
Several icons have been created to get an icon theme that is not broken. All icons should be sardi's now. Report if changes occurr over time.
New icon set added
Icons are ready for the new version.
Ubuntu Mate and Raspbian icons have been created or fixed.
More pictures to the bottom
# End of Latest news
Sardi is based on Ardis Icon Theme from Kotus Works. You can say it is a fork but it has grown beyond its origins.
(Sardi is an anagram for Ardis)
It can be installed on a variety of distro's as you can see at the bottom of this page.
As always we stand on the shoulders of others, who share the knowledge and the (hard) work.
Ardis Icon Theme is a project originally created by Kotus Works kotus.works@gmail.com
"This project's goal is to create a truly open source icon theme,
to support every DE, and to theme as many applications as possible."
It is a personal learning project :
- how to make an icon theme in linux and
- how to use inkscape to make the icons (512px)
Documentation to be found at http://erikdubois.be
Look for info in category Linux/Sardi.
http://erikdubois.be/category/linux/sardi-icons/
Starting of June 2015 I started developing some of the missing icons on distro's.
Each icon has to be created and five subsets of it.
- Sardi
- Sardi Flat
- Sardi Flexible
- Sardi Ghost Flexible
- Sardi Mono
Each of these subsets will receive a new icon.
Get the very latest Sardi icons from Sourceforge.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sardi/files/?source=directory
Extract this tar.gz file with fileroller, engrampa or any other application.
Make sure that you have an hidden folder .icons in your home folder by pressing CTRL + H.
If you do not have a .icons folder yet, make one.
Copy/paste the whole content of Sardi folder in the hidden folder .icons.
Select with the tool of your distro the icon set.
Some of the icons do not change on your distro because your linux distribution is hardcoding the path in the desktop file
READ ON HOW TO SOLVE THAT.
Some of the themes inherit from each other so install the complete content of the Sardi tar.gz file.
If any of the icons are missing this theme will use Numix and Numix Circle.
You should install it as a fall-back icon theme. It is a 'just in case' scenario. Follow the steps described here. It is such a nice icon theme you should have it anyway.
https://github.com/numixproject/numix-icon-theme-circle
In the end you will have 4 icon themes
- numix
- numix-light
- numix-circle
- numix-circle-light
Some icons do not seem to change whatever theme of icons your are choosing. That is because the programmer is pointing the path of the "Icon" to one specific place.
For example : Linux Mint Update used to be
/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/icons/base.svg
Working together with Joshua Fogg is the best way to proceed to get all references to icons like they should be in the first place.
You can find his hardcode-fixer script at
https://github.com/Foggalong/hardcode-fixer
Read what it does on his website.
The script will get the latest csv file from the net, so you need to have 'curl' installed.
sudo apt-get install curl
Run it with
sudo ./fix.sh
You will get an output of all the icons/applications that have been fixed.
June 2015 I filed all the hardcoded links of Linux Mint to that website and now all hardcoded links should be gone, IF YOU RUN THE SCRIPT. If you do find an icon that will never change, file it yourself at https://github.com/Foggalong/hardcode-fixer.
If for some reason you want to revert back to the situation before you ran the hardcode-fixer you can do so.
sudo ./fix.sh -r
Based on Sardi Mono orange made this new monochrome look. All action icons have been grayscaled too.
The scripts I have used to change colours and to make the icons monochrome are included in the download for future developers.
Sardi Flexible is a monochrome icon theme where you get to choose the background color. There will be always a white outercircle and a white icon. Via two scripts you can change the color to your liking. You have 16.5 million color choices.
Starting colour
but you can make it crimson
or supernova
or any color you like.
You can change all these white icons to the colour of your liking via a script.
If you rather like all the white icons to be black (or any other colour), this can be partially achieved by these commands
#folder actions
find scalable/actions -name "*.svg" -type f -exec sed -i '/fill="#fffffe"/!s/fill="#'$oldcolour'"/fill="#'$newcolour'"/g' {} \;
find scalable/actions -name "*.svg" -type f -exec sed -i '/fill:#fffffe/!s/fill:#'$oldcolour'/fill:#'$newcolour'/g' {} \;
Sardi Icons have no longer a circular white border and shadows. This flattens the icon set considerably.
This icons set has black folders. Rest of the icons are inherited from Sardi Flat. The following code was used to make the blue folders black in the map places.
find -name "*.svg" -exec sed -i 's/6997c7/494949/g' {} \;
In my learning process I wanted to know if I could only change the folders. As I like the vertex icon theme from horst3180 at https://github.com/horst3180/Vertex-Icons, I tried to mix the two together.
I combined both Ardis and Vertex to come to Sardi Vertexed.
You need to have Sardi installed as Sardi Vertexed only has information about places like folders. Rest of the icons are inherited from Sardi.
The black folders from http://www.deviantart.com/art/Faenza-Black-244042717 were added to the icon theme. The icons will be from Sardi but all folders will be from Faenza Black.
You need to have Sardi installed as Sardi Faenza Black only has information about places like folders. Rest of the icons are inherited from Sardi.
This will result in this.
Based on the screenshots of users on Google + I wondered if it was possible to have monochrome icons based on the Sardi Icon theme.
I can only say it pays of to learn CLI.
This line did all the work while I watched a series on television (3-4 hours)
find -name "*.svg" -exec inkscape -f {} --verb=org.inkscape.color.grayscale --verb=FileSave --verb=FileClose \;
All icons have been 'grayscaled' in colour.
If you do not like the blue folders you can always change the colour via CLI.
I applied this code on all the icons in the places directory (blue folders) and 1 second later they were all in orange.
find -name "*.svg" -exec sed -i 's/6997c7/f38725/g' {} \;
The first colour is blue (6997c7) and the replacement is orange(f38725).
I think this link is one you should bookmark http://sed.sourceforge.net/sed1line.txt.
Open the .svg with sublime-text for example and look for the colour codes. I took two .svg's. One was blue and was orange. That was the only difference. I quickly discovered which code was different and changed it with the script.
Underneath you will find an example of a screenshot of red folders using this method.
You need to have Sardi installed as Sardi Orange only has information about places like folders. Rest of the icons are inherited from Sardi.
Extra colour codes starting with the Sardi/scalable/extra/places/blue folder
Grey find -name "*.svg" -exec sed -i 's/6997c7/cccccc/g' {} ;
Sardi Grey has been made in the exact same manner as Sardi Orange. Read Sardi Orange.
Sardi Red has been made in the exact same manner as Sardi Orange. Read Sardi Orange.
find -name "*.svg" -exec sed -i 's/6997c7/aa1111/g' {} \;
Instead of the blue or orange folders the folders have been colored red by the user.
If you want to have these red folders, got to the folder places in the Sardi directory.
Sardi/scalable/extra/places/blue
Open a terminal there and paste this code in the terminal
find -name "*.svg" -exec sed -i 's/6997c7/d44d3b/g' {} \;
Instead of the blue or orange folders the folders have been colored red by the user.
If you want to have these red folders, got to the folder places in the Sardi directory.
Sardi/scalable/extra/places/blue
Open a terminal there and paste this code in the terminal
find -name "*.svg" -exec sed -i 's/6997c7/d44d3b/g' {} \;
I love the numix circle theme. On any distribution it looks really nice. I am using some of their icons if ever I am in need of it and I am actively contributing to their theme by mentioning missing icons and other stuff on their github. If ever you decide to contribute too, post issues at this address.
https://github.com/numixproject/numix-icon-theme-circle/issues
Ardis Icon Theme is a project originally created by Kotus Works kotus.works@gmail.com
This project's goal is to create a truly open source icon theme, to support every DE, and to theme as many applications as possible.
Ardis Icon Theme's inspiration is drawn from a combination of styles including
- Numix utouchicon theme: https://github.com/numixproject/numix-icon-theme-utouch
- Simple icon theme: http://kxmylo.deviantart.com/art/Simple-icon-theme-426040287
- Flamini icon pack: http://kotusworks.deviantart.com/art/Flamini-icons-set-for-KDE-437738820
Every icon in this icon pack is in .svg format with size of 512x512 px.
On 26th May of 2015 Kotus Works has expressed on google + the following :
Unfortunately I have no more time to work on all of my icons
projects do to some recent personal stuff that are going on.
So I'm actually forced to retire from icon making.
