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What is this?
La Capitaine is an icon pack, designed to integrate with most desktop environments. The set of icons takes inspiration from the latest iterations of macOS and Google's Material Design through the use of visually pleasing gradients, shadowing, and simple icon geometry.
Every image in this theme is a scalable vector graphic so it will look great at any size, on any screen. In my spare time, I work on adding new icons, updating old ones, and making this theme more complete. Since this theme is updated often, you should clone this git repository and pull regularly to make sure you're always up-to-date:
cd ~/.icons
git clone https://github.com/keeferrourke/la-capitaine-icon-theme.git
Alternatively, there is an AUR PKGBUILD available, so if you're on Arch Linux, simply run:
yaourt -S la-capitaine-icon-theme-git
and keep yourself on the bleeding edge of this repo :smile:
Configuration
La Capitaine comes with a configuration script which attempts to determine your distribution and desktop environment. Using this information, La Capitaine updates several system icons and icons used for mime-types.
For best integration with your distro/desktop environment, please run ./configure and follow the prompts.
License
La Capitaine is a fork of the El General icon theme for the GNOME desktop with significant changes. El General is in turn a fork of the Numix-circle icon theme. As such, La Capitaine is a derivative work mostly licensed under the GPLv3.
The configuration script included here is written by me and licensed under the permissive MIT license.
See LICENSE and COPYING for more details.
Donations
I'm a poor university computer science student, and I spend many hours per week working on this and other projects -- If you like this icon pack and want to support me, please consider donating via Paypal, Patreon, or Bitcoin :smile:
Check out Thanks.md to see a list of significant donors and contributors!
Icon Requests
If there's an icon that's missing in this project, feel free to contact me or open an issue.
Please follow this format for requests:
Application: _name of application_
Icon name: _name of icon_
Context: _e.g. app, status, action, etc. (if known)_
Icon reference:
<attach image of original icon>
You should take a look at request #58 for a real example of the format I'm looking for. Following the requested format makes my life easier and guarantees that your request will be fulfilled faster :grin:
If your request is for a desktop application (it usually is), you can find the icon name in the application's *.desktop file located at /usr/share/applications/yourapplication.desktop or $HOME/.local/share/applications/yourapplication.desktop.
If you find that an application icon is not themed, but an icon appears in this project with the wrong (or a different) file name as specified in your x-desktop file, please let me know and open an issue.
Roadmap
To-do:
- Change software store and management icons to something more original/generic
- Add alternative file-browser icons (requested a few times)
- Add alternative status, action and other 16x16 icons for dark GTK+ themes
Recommendations
La Capitaine looks best with a theme based on either Material Design or macOS. Though I don't make GTK+ themes, some of my favourites are: Flat-Plat, Adapta, Paper, Arc, and Arc-OSX. Have fun, and happy theming!
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