WhiteSur Icon Theme

MacOS Big Sur like icon theme for linux desktops

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Install tips

Usage: ./install.sh [OPTIONS...]

OPTIONS:
-d, --dest	Specify theme destination directory (Default: $HOME/.local/share/icons)
-n, --name	Specify theme name (Default: WhiteSur)
-t, --theme	Specify theme color variant(s) [default/purple/pink/red/orange/yellow/green/grey/all] (Default: blue)
-a, --alternative	Install alternative icons (redesigned MacOS default icons)
-b, --bold	Install bold panel icons version
-r,--remove,-u,--uninstall	Uninstall (remove) icon themes
-h, --help	Show this help

Note for snaps: To use these icons with snaps, the best way is to make a copy of the application's .desktop located in /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/name-of-the-snap-application.desktop into $HOME/.local/share/applications/. Then use any text editor and change the "Icon=" to "Icon=name-of-the-icon.svg"

Note for flatpaks: To use these icons, change icon names inside /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share .desktop file.

For more information, run: ./install.sh --help

Bold version suggested use in High resolution display like 4k display with 200% scale!

New Icons

To be able to change some icons :

1. create a new one, ideally in svg format
2. store it in place of : <WhiteSur-icon-theme>/src/apps/scalable/<name_of_app>
3. reinstall icon theme, for example :

sudo ./install.sh -a -b

AppImages

To apply icons for the AppImages :

1. create a new icon if it does not exists already, ideally in svg format
2. right click on the AppImage file
3. click on the icon on the top left corner
4. select the icon you want to have

To have the icon and the app in the launcher / taskbar and so on ... :

1. create a new icon if it does not exists already, ideally in svg format
2. create a .desktop file in : /home/lmunier/.local/share/applications/ folder with the following specifications as example, for SuperSlicer :

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Categories=Slicer;
Name=SuperSlicer
Comment=3D printing slicer.
Exec=<path_to_your_appimage>
Icon=/usr/share/icons/WhiteSur-dark/apps/scalable/super-slicer.svg
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Hidden=false
StartupWMClass=SuperSlicer

3. StartupWMClass specification allows the OS to have the right icon when the program is running. If you do not know what to put :
   1. open the program
   2. do : Alt + F2
   3. run command : lg
   4. click on "Windows" tab
   5. check the "WMClass" name and set it for "StartupWMClass"

Requirement

You can use this with:

GTK theme

WhiteSur-gtk-theme: https://github.com/vinceliuice/WhiteSur-gtk-theme

KDE theme

WhiteSur-kde: https://github.com/vinceliuice/WhiteSur-kde

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