Installing KFaenza Icons on Kubuntu
There are many ways to install the icon themes – this is one
Search online for the KFaenza theme, e.g. using the search term: “KFaenza kde rpm”. A hit: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=kfaenza-icon-theme
Download the most recent package: kfaenza-icon-theme-0.8.9-5.fc20.noarch.rpm
The RPM can be unpacked to an usable archive with the rpm2cpio
command (must be installed first):
$ rpm2cpio kfaenza-icon-theme-0.8.9-5.fc20.noarch.rpm | cpio -idmv
This will unpack the KFaenza icon theme into the current directory (./usr/share/icons/KFaenza/...
). The options for the cpio
command can be viewed online: -i
takes the archive from STDIN, -d
creates the necessary directories, -m
preserves modification times (not strictly necessary), and -v
produces verbose output.
The unpacked KFaenza
folder then has to be copied over into ~/.kde/share/icons/
to make it available:
Now the KFaenza theme can be picked from the KDE System Settings 〉 Application Appearance 〉 Icons. Apply the change, and the KFaenza is there!
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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amon almost 2 years
I am unable to install the KFaenza Icon set. Steps tried:
In the Application Appearance section of the KDE System Settings, I clicked on the “download new designs” button. A dialogue pops up which allows you to browse different designs. When clicking on “install”, a few options turn up (apparently different versions). Clicking any option leads to an error.
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I visited the corresponding opendesktop.org page for the KFaenza icon set. Below the description, an array of download options is available. They lead to an expired paste and to “omploader.org” which does not contain a website (the DNS record does not seem to be set up).
The opendesktop page also has various comments complaining that the resources have vanished, but offer no solution.
How can I install the Faenza icon set for KDE? I could copy the icons over from an old install, but I'd rather not
sudo cp
something into system folders if avoidable. -
amon over 10 yearsThank you for the very nice answer! It felt weird to use an RPM for a *buntu distro, but as the theme doesn't contain compiled resources … whatever, it works :)