[SOLVED] How to get older systray icons?

[zugunder]

Hi all,

I do not like the white systray icons supplied with KDE starting from 4.5 I guess. Is there any simple way to replace them with something similar to those used in KDE 4.4 (or right from KDE 4.4)? Aren't there any packages available in Mageia's repos?

Thank you.

[roadrunner]

I don't like them either, in fact, I think they suck.
Here's how I changed mine back to the "old" icons:

- Navigate to /usr/share/apps/desktoptheme/default/icons
- Add .old to the end of each filename (rename them (you need to be root to do this))
- Logout and back in again

Job done!
Note: not all of them change back to the "old" icons but I haven't found a way of fixing that yet.

Try it

.\\artin

[zugunder]

Thank you, it worked.
As of now, battery and job notifier don't change.
But since we know where the icons are stored, wouldn't it be easier to place there the old svgz's? Does anyone know where the actual icon sets could be found? Any KDE repo?

[doktor5000]

Get a tarball of an older KDE release that contains those icons, and extract them there, overwriting the existing ones.

[zugunder]

I am afraid I just do not understand how it works...
.svgz files from /usr/share/apps/desktoptheme/default/icons must be symlinks, right? But how to find the place with real icons?

[doktor5000]

Look where the symlink leads to? ls -la shows that neither in /usr/share/apps/desktoptheme/default/icons nor /usr/share/apps/desktoptheme/default are any symlinks.

[zugunder]

But how does then changing name into .old change the actual icon? For example, in audio.svgz there is only one set of icons - the white one. Bat as soon as I rename this file into audio.old.svgz, the corresponding tray icon changes, but in audio.old.svgz there is still one white set of images.

[roadrunner]

I am afraid I just do not understand how it works...
.svgz files from /usr/share/apps/desktoptheme/default/icons must be symlinks, right? But how to find the place with real icons?

There's a very brief explanation here: http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.p ... #msg257110 which contains a link to a very long thread about all this.

.\\artin

[doktor5000]

But how does then changing name into .old change the actual icon? For example, in audio.svgz there is only one set of icons - the white one. Bat as soon as I rename this file into audio.old.svgz, the corresponding tray icon changes, but in audio.old.svgz there is still one white set of images.

In renaming, you don't change the file. The renamed file is still the white set of icons as it was before renaming, just the name changed.
Seems after renaming KDE uses another set of icons,

[zugunder]

In renaming, you don't change the file. The renamed file is still the white set of icons as it was before renaming, just the name changed.
Seems after renaming KDE uses another set of icons,

Huh, as far as I understood, it does... So it doesn't matter if I rename or remove them, in both cases KDE uses the old .png icon set from /usr/share/icons/oxigen. But the trick is that though, for example, both audio- and battery- icon sets are present there, only audio set is visible in the tray when I switch to the old oxigen set. For some unknown reason, KDE doesn't detect any battery Oxigen .png icons, though they are physically present in the place where they should be.
Well, not surprised at all... KDE team screwed up something again... as usual though.

[zugunder]

UPD.
I found an icon package called KVintage_0.03 on KDELook, it contains many "old-style" icons, including the tray ones in .svg.
So just replaced the standard icons in /usr/share/apps/desktoptheme/default/icons with the "vintage" ones, so now it is exactly what I like.