Icon Sets

The Default Icon Sets

By default, Trinity ships with one icon set (Crystal SVG) in tdebase, five more (iKons, KDE-Classic, Kids, KDE-Locolor, Slick Icons) in tdeartwork, and one (Monochrome) in tdeaccessibility. Here's a quick comparison chart (using the largest folder icon available as a visual sample):

Name	Creator	Largest Size	Sample	Notes
Crystal SVG	Everaldo Coelho	No max		The KDE3 default icon set (and Trinity's as well, since we haven't replaced it). Infinitely resizable .svg icons.
iKons	Kristof Borrey	64 x 64		Most icons are only available at sizes up to 48 x 48.
KDE-Classic	Torsten Rahn	64 x 64		This was the default KDE3 icon set prior to the introduction of Crystal. Most icons are only available at sizes up to 48 x 48.
KDE-Locolor	???	32 x 32		Similar to KDE-Classic, but with fewer colours per icon.
Kids	Everaldo Coelho	64 x 64
Monochrome	Danny Allen	No max		Black-and-white icon set for monochrome/low-colour displays. Infinitely resizable .svg icons.
Slick Icons	???	64 x 64

Using Non-Trinity Icons with Trinity

Go right ahead. Trinity should be able to use any icon theme suitable for X Windows desktop environments, including KDE4's Oxygen, the various custom icon themes created by Ubuntu, themes created for Gnome, etc. Icon sets for KDE will probably have the largest selection of icons for Trinity-specific applications like amaroK and Konqueror. If you don't like any of the sets your distribution makes available, the best place to look for additional ones is the KDELook.org Icon Sets section.

Once installed, additional icon themes should show up in the Control Center under Appearance and Themes > Icons.

If you want to pick and choose individual icons, they can be in .png or .svg format. Microsoft Windows .ico files won't work, but you can convert them to .png by using appropriate software.

If you want to create your own icons, we provide kiconedit in the tdegraphics package in order to make it easy to do just that.