Faenza is a popular icon theme for linux. It is also used in some versions of android to create a great look. Recently a version 1.0 released. Faenza 1.0 adds a number of new icons and even launches support for symbolic icons in GNOME Shell. You will get the original page on deviantart and gnome look.

What is new in Faenza 1.0 ?

The change log here…

  1. * New apps: preferences-desktop-wallpaper, SEtroubleshoot, system-switch-java, Fedora autoplus, Fedora-release-notes
  2. * New status icons: nm-device-wired-secure
  3. * Some reworked icons
  4. * A wide bunch of new symbolic icons for Gnome Shell
  5. * Better support for XFCE
  6. * All applications in 16×16
  7. * Fix some missing linksINSTALLATION:

Download the tar.gz file and extract it. In the new folder created, run the ./INSTALL script to choose the distribution logo (Ubuntu, by default) and the Gnome menu icon. If run as root, the script will copy the iconsets to /usr/share/icons to made them available to all users. Some default icons used by Rhythmbox and Dockmanager may be also replaced.
Run ./UNINSTALL as root to restore defaults icons.

Install on Ubuntu

  • Just do the following in Terminal.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install faenza-icon-theme
  • Done.

This work is released under the GNU/GPL license. Sources san be downloaded here : [link]

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