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Unix-like
What are the best icon sets for Unix-like desktops?
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Best icon sets for Unix-like desktops
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Papirus
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Flat Remix
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Numix Circle
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Paper
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Faenza
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Papirus
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Papirus
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Papirus
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Sharp, flat, and fresh
All icons look pleasing, especially with the Arc theme.
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Under GNU GPL3
This limits the use elsewhere.
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ThoughtfulEurynome's Experience
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Familiar
Used on Lubuntu and BunsenLabs, for example.
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Contrast issues / No border around icons
It makes the the fast and makes it simple to add more icons(since you can simply scale them) however the contrast is lost in some situations.
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ResoluteCharybdis's Experience
continuous improving and adding icons
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Active development
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No Ideas
It just copies the icon-syle from a different system.
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LogicalAbgal's Experience
it's amazing , sharp and warm
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Just another material style copy
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Lacks icon for backintime
Backintime tray icon doesn't display on the panel because Papirus lacks the icon.
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Flat Remix
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Flat Remix
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Flat Remix
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5
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4
Cons
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Nice cohabitation with default icons
When an icon isn't provided by the theme, you cannot really spot it as this theme is quite close of the default with still a subtle and classy look and feel.
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Under GNU GPL3
Limited use elsewhere.
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Under GNU GPL3
Based copyleft license.
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Very large collection
This set contains icons for many file types that are ignored by other icon sets.
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Flat but with some depth
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Numix Circle
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Numix Circle
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Numix Circle
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5
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2
Pros
2
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Simple
All icons have the same form.
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Too saturated
Some of the icons are too over-saturated.
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TruthfulSuwaliyat's Experience
Flat, minimal, at the forefront with the new graphical interfaces
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Booring
Very simple and generic icon theme.
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EnterprisingMacuiltochtli's Experience
good
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Paper
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Paper
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Paper
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Does a total makeover of your computer
It's a complete theme, with custom icons, GTK, cursors, Gnome Shell.
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Serhat Gülaştı's Experience
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Flat and colorful design
The look of this theme is inspired by Material Design.
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Faenza
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Faenza
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Faenza
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4
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Comfortable and stylish
Stylish, comfortable, uniform.
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Back to early 2010s kitsch
Feels old, or even squalid.
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ResourcefulLiTieguai's Experience
Nice color for folder icon but I really don't like the computer icon and the icons are a bit too squarish. I prefer more rectangular shape.
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VigorousPallas's Experience
been using this for many years, is very good looking
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Shadow
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Shadow
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Shadow
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StrongApep's Experience
I installed this set on two of our family laptops. Looks great!
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Vibrancy Colors
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elementary
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elementary
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elementary
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Good contrast
Icons have a dark border around plus a subtle shadow at the bottom and hilight on the top to improve the contrast with the background.
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Arc
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Arc
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Arc
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Cons
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Contrast issues
There is not much contrast between the icon and the background if you use a not white (eg: greyish) theme.
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Really easy on the eye
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Need moka icon set to work but you can edit the default icons to use if you don't have it installed
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Default fallback icon theme does not match
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Evolvere
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Evolvere
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Evolvere
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kora
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kora
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kora
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Nitrux
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Nitrux
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Nitrux
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Debian
Price:
Free of cost
Default Desktop Environment:
NX Desktop (customization layer on top of KDE Plasma 5)
Package Manager:
APT (Debian base), AppImage (Preferred,) Flatpak (Supported)
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Human Minimal
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Human Minimal
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Human Minimal
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Minimal
Flat.
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KnowledgeableMiach's Experience
I've used this icon set for at least ten years
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Moka
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Moka
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Moka
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Boston Icons
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Boston Icons
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Vivacious Colors
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Vivacious Colors
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Mojave CT Icons
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Mojave CT Icons
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Vibrant, skeomorphic Icons
One of the best icon packs ever created.
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gnome-colors
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gnome-colors
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gnome-colors
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1
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VigorousPallas's Experience
pretty good for a basic icon theme
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RAVE X Colors
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RAVE X Colors
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Reversal
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Reversal
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