Dark third-party Suru icons for more than 20 distributions

Successor of @Magog64’s Suru++ Ubuntu

A cyberpunkish, elegant, futuristic, Papirus-like and modern Suru icons based on Suru Icons by Sam Hewitt

Index

• What’s new?
  • Redesign
  • 12 folder colours, Linux Mint colour and new folder colour for dark environment
  • Distinction of file managers
  • Mimetype icons redesign
  • Alternative icons
  • Steam games
  • Oomox
  • New flags icons
• Installing with CLI
  • ROOT directory (recommended)
  • HOME directory for GTK
  • HOME directory for KDE
  • *BSD systems
  • Uninstall
• Changing the folder colour
• Changing the alternative icon
  • Firefox
  • Alternative icons
  • File manager icon
• Known bugs
  • Snap-built apps
  • AppImage-built apps
  • Hardcoded application icons with ugly name
  • Hardcoded tray icons
  • Unrecognised and ugly icons
    • Okular icon and other icons
• Report
• Contribution
• Contributors
• Changelog
• Credits and Licences

What’s new?

Redesign

Following Sam Hewitt’s rules of grids, and making less conservative and traditional @Magog64’s Suru++ Ubuntu, more than 15k icons have been redesigned, papirusified and improved with new cyberpunk colours and made been compatible with KDE, XFCE and other many environments! Check the new icons:

12 folder colours, Linux Mint colour and new folder colour for dark environment

The new versions has won new colours of folders, based by Alexey Varfolomeev’s Papirus, and won new folders with colour of Linux Mint and for dark environment:

Distinction of file managers

The file managers are no longer same, now are different and modern:

Mimetype icons redesign

Almost all mimetype icons have been redesigned with new colours and are based on Numix mimetype icons:

Alternative icons

Redesigned by @ChrisP4 and by @darcn181. You can choose one of your alternates. To change the alternate, please see Alternative icons.

Icon name	Default	Alt 1	Alt 2	Alt 3	Alt 4
firefox	firefox.svg	firefox-traditional.svg	firefox-mozilla.svg	-	-
settings	settings.svg	settings-alt1.svg	settings-alt2.svg	-	-
sublime-text	sublime-text.svg	sublime-text-alt.svg	-	-	-
system-lock-screen	system-lock-screen.svg	system-lock-screen-alt1.svg	system-lock-screen-alt2.svg	-	-
system-log-out	system-log-out.svg	system-log-out-alt1.svg	system-log-out-alt2.svg	-	-
system-reboot	system-reboot.svg	system-reboot-alt1.svg	system-reboot-alt2.svg	-	-
system-shutdown	system-shutdown.svg	system-shutdown-alt1.svg	system-shutdown-alt2.svg	-	-
system-suspend	system-suspend.svg	system-suspend-alt1.svg	system-suspend-alt2.svg	-	-
system-suspend-hibernate	system-suspend-hibernate.svg	system-suspend-hibernate-alt1.svg	system-suspend-hibernate-alt2.svg	-	-
user	user.svg	user-alt1.svg	user-alt2.svg	user-alt3.svg	user-alt4.svg

To change the default icon of each file manager (Caja, Nautilus, Nemo, etc.), see File manager icon.

Steam games

Hundreds Steam games icons are supported officially:

Oomox

Suru++ is officially compatible with with @actionless's Oomox. You can change any colour of all 16px icons and of all folders once in a while!

New flags icons

New countries flags (in development)!

Installing with CLI

Use the scripts to install the latest version directly from this repo (independently of your distro):

NOTE: Use the same command to update the icon theme.

ROOT directory (recommended)

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gusbemacbe/suru-plus-dark/master/install.sh | sh

HOME directory for GTK

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gusbemacbe/suru-plus-dark/master/install.sh | env DESTDIR="$HOME/.icons" sh

HOME directory for KDE

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gusbemacbe/suru-plus-dark/master/install.sh | env DESTDIR="$HOME/.local/share/icons" sh

*BSD systems

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gusbemacbe/suru-plus-dark/master/install.sh | env DESTDIR="/usr/local/share/icons" sh

Uninstall

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gusbemacbe/suru-plus-dark/master/install.sh | env uninstall=true sh

Changing the folder colour

Please visit directly the tutorial: Suru++ Folders. The tutorial is translated in 7 languages.

Changing the alternative icon

Firefox

1. Go to /usr/share/applications/;
2. Go to the desktop file Firefox;
3. Open the file with your favourite text editor;
4. Find Icon=... and modify it with one of three alternatives: Icon=firefox or Icon=firefox-mozilla or Icon=firefox-traditional. Save it.

Alternative icons

1. Run cd "go_to_/Suru++\ Dark/64/";
2. Download the script alt-icon.sh, make it executable and trusted and copy the path of this script to the terminal;
3. For example:

cd ~/.local/share/icons/Suru++\ Dark/64
$ ~/.local/share/icons/Suru++\ Dark/64
~/alt-icon.sh
=> Old symlink
user.svg
=> New symlink
user-alt1.svg

If you do not like one alternate and want to try another, run like:

=> Old symlink
user-alt1.svg
=> New symlink
user-alt2.svg

File manager icon

1. Go to the folder /usr/share/applications, for example, if you want to change the default icon of Nautilus, your favourite file manager, find nautilus.desktop
2. Run as sudo and change Icon=... to any of these:

• Icon=file-manager
• Icon=caja
• Icon=nautilus
• Icon=nemo
• Icon=sapcefm-find
• Icon=thunar

Remember that if you make an upgrade of your system, these desktop files will revert to the original icon name. Move them to ~./local/share/applications. Note that after the upgrade of your system, it will add the desktop files in the /usr/share/applications, so you need to remove them.

Known bugs

Snap-built apps

Unfortunately the snap-built apps are not supported almost by any icons themes, because the icons are hardcoded and the desktop files are not hosted in the folder ~/.local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.

To solve it, please follow the instructions:

1. Do:

# Copy all desktop files of all snap-built apps to "~/.local/share/applications"
sudo cp /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/*.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
# To de-sudo the files
sudo chmod -R 777 ~/.local/share/applications
# To remove the duplicates
sudo rm /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/*.desktop

2. Go to the directory ~/.local/share/applications;
3. Open each desktop file of snap app with your favourite text editor and modify the encoded path of Icon to the simple path with no extension. For example, if you use Insomnia:

Icon=snap/icons/icon.png
Icon=insomnia

AppImage-built apps

With AppImageLauncher installed, you click an AppImage, it is automatically integrated to ~/Applications, and desktop files are automatically created into ~/local/share/applications. But if you modify one of the AppImage-built app desktop file to correct the icon path, AppImageLauncher reverts automatically the desktop file to the original and keeps again the icon path hardcoded. It also removes the option StartupWMClass. We recommend you to ban AppImageLauncher.

1. Remove appimagelauncher via terminal;
2. Make all AppImages executable and trusted:

chmod a+x *.AppImage

3. Reboot;
4. Create the desktop files manually in the directory ~/.local/share/applications. Do not forget of adding the option StartupWNClass or the icon will be unrecognised or ugly.

Hardcoded application icons with ugly name

We have already icons, but it is wrong or ugly name, or because the icon is hardcoded. For example, the application Github Desktop used Icon=desktop.png and other apps, like Insomnia, use Icon=icon.png, or worse, Icon=stupid/path/icon.png.

To deal with hardcoded application icons we recommend to install hardcode-fixer. Suru++ supports most of the applications in the list. If hardcode-fixer doesn't support your favourite app yet, please open an issue here or edit your .desktop file manually.

Hardcoded tray icons

To fix hardcoded tray icons, install and use Hardcode-Tray script. A list of supported applications is available here.

To get Suru++ to work right with Hardcode-Tray script, use the hardcode-tray option --conversion-tool RSVGConvert:

sudo -E hardcode-tray --conversion-tool RSVGConvert --size 22 --theme Suru++

Unrecognised and ugly icons

Okular icon and other icons

Not just Suru++, it also affects Numix icons theme. It is a missed StartupWMClass option in the desktop files in KDE and an icon cache bug in GNOME and KDE.

1. Install and use StartupWMClassFixer;
2. Install and use Stacer to clean caches;
3. Log out and log in.

Report

• Do you find the missed icons?
• Do you find the misused and ugly icons?
• Did you find the errors?

Report, but please provide well-detailed information. Or I will have difficulty to understand what you are saying or to know which app you are referring.

Contribution

• Would you like to improve our repository?
• Do you want to add and request the icons? Make a pull request and we will analyse and approve or not.

Contributors

The contributors is on the file AUTHORS.

Changelog

The changelog is available on the release page in theme's repository.

Credits and Licences

• CC BY-SA/GPL3 © 2018-2019 Suru Icons by Sam Hewitt.
• GPL3 © 2018-2019 Suru++ Ubuntu by Andrea Bonanni and Gustavo Costa.
• GPL3 © 2018-2019 Suru++ 25 by Gustavo Costa.
• GPL3 © Papirus by Alexey Varfolomeev.
• GPL3 © Numix by Numix Team.
• GPL3/MIT © 2015-2019 La Capitaine by Keefer Rourke.
• MIT © Icons 8 by Gravit Designer¹
• MIT © Twemoji by Twitter Team.

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¹ Gravit Designer has a special agreement with Icons 8 and allows the Pro user of Gravit Designer to use any icon without attribution and to sublicence under an open source licence. See the topic here.