Custom Faenza icons for applications

12 february 2011

On the preview from top-left to bottom-right : Gimp-painter ( image editing ) , Mypaint ( digital painting ) , Alchemy ( digital painting ), Kdenlive ( video editing ) , Krita ( image editing ), Kapow ( time management for freelancer ) , Hugin ( panorama tool )

Faenza is a brillant icon set created by Matthieu James under the GPL license. Very popular, it's installed by default on many recent Linux distribution. I also choosed it as my default set of icons. The number of icons for various applications are great , but it missed few icons to make the set complete. Thanks to the GPL license, time to a 'saturday fix this' using the wonderfull vector editing program Inkscape and share it on my blog for download if you need fancy icons for our favorite applications.

Download

faenza-new-icons.zip The above archive contain the GPL as well as a file to credit authors. I hope some of them will help the Faenza project.

Links

- Faenza instalation on Techdrivein : Follow this link
- Matthieu James Faenza devaint art page : Follow this link

Classified in : Software & Hardware

blog post by David Revoy

11 comments

1. deburger

sunday 13 february 2011, 17:51

nice icons

i'v published some too... month ago...
http://4cg.ru/kachabeljnoe/ikonki/faenza_draw_pack_-_para_nedostayuschih_ikonok_k_lyubimoy_teme.html

2. REVOY David

sunday 13 february 2011, 18:40

Hi Deburger,

Good job on your icon and cool to see I'm not alone to have the idea to fix it (^ u ^) ( even if I'm late to do it ).

3. iKlsR

sunday 13 february 2011, 18:58

great job on the icons Dave. loving the Alchemy and Krita one!

4. jalberto

tuesday 15 february 2011, 23:57

Great icons!
I already have the Faenza icons installed, how do I add this ones?

5. REVOY David

saturday 19 february 2011, 05:16

@iKlsR : Thanks !

@Jalberto : For the moment, I don't know. I added them to my gnome menu by editing each launcher manually. ( Edit Menu, then edit entries , and thumbnails ). I will try to know more about how to name them and were to copy paste them to have an automagical install. Surely possible with a *.sh script doing something like "sudo cp /usr/share/icons/Faenza...etc.... ..."

6. jalberto

sunday 20 february 2011, 22:38

@David Revoy: Ok, thank you

7. Indra

saturday 16 april 2011, 12:18

Its nice blog

8. REVOY David

saturday 16 april 2011, 14:07

Thanks Indra

9. Waldir

thursday 26 january 2012, 19:46

I'd like to create Faenza-styled icons for RStudio (http://www.rstudio.org/) and Texmaker (http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/), two applications I use quite a lot. Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with Inkscape to be able to do such a nice work as what you've done. Is there some sort of walkthrough I could find? Thanks!

10. David REVOY

thursday 26 january 2012, 22:20

@Waldir : Hi Waldir, I think one of the easier way is to modify existing icon with basic inkscape knowledge : you can find all of them on /usr/share/icons/faenza/ then use your search feature on your desktop to filter only *.svg files. I'm sure you can make them by copy pasting and scaling existing element, or changing colors. Good luck !

11. Keegan

monday 17 september 2012, 02:00

Awesome, Gimp and Kdenlive, just what I needed. I don't like the Gimp faenza default, no Wilbur.

David Revoy