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It just works. I put a ton of work making sure it just works. I even exported my theme in different coloured variants so people don’t have to try and mess with icons to get them how they want.

At least in KDE for the accents. The rest follows the open desktop standard so it should be pretty universal.

I also made sure to include “symbolic” versions to improve functionality on Ubuntu, though I’ve yet to try it on Ubuntu….

A bunch! First I used Affinity Designer to work on the more complex icons, then I have another SVG editor called Boxy I use for smaller edits because it doesn’t mess with metadata. Then I used many terminal commands to mass edit the files, such as applying a colour fill or the accent fill. I’ve got another app that optimized the SVG files into similar structures to also help with the terminal commands. Also I found this cool app on my Mac that lets me export an entire font as individual SVG files, so it let me add the whole Google Noto emoji library as proper glyphs that work with my theme. I also ran some command on the emojis to rename them to their proper emoji names from their Unicode ID. I also used a spreadsheet to sort out my commands and colours.

So plenty of apps! 😅

Well that’s embarrassing. My brain is a bit melted after a month straight of making and organizing icons.

Thank you! I put a ton of work into it, and will be updating it regularly.

Great you understood. I want it to be as universal as possible and part of that is no English text explaining stuff. Anyway, I’ve thought of that too. It would be a bit of work to make sure it looks good, but definitely an option in the future.

I want to make it as simple as possible, which for now doesn’t involved including scripts to run that would accomplish that. It’s totally possible though.

I plan to add an extra size for larger scaling that will have thinner lines.

This is very intriguing. I’ve been testing it and it seems good, but maybe I’m not looking for the right thing. Care to explain what you mean?

They are all vectors so the scaling is good. I don’t have larger variants for folders and mimetypes but that’s planned in the future.

With the icons I’m releasing an “unfilled set”. And I have tediously made sure all my icons are single layer proper svg files without any styles or unnecessary metadata and no strokes. That way it’s super easy to run batch commands on the whole set. Say you wanna replace a colour, do a find and replace and command, it’s that’s simple. So for chaos you could just make a script to keep changing the fill as it goes through every icon.

The bottom row is meant to show that the theme changes to the used accent colour. Should I make that more clear?

They are all svg files, all with proper plasma theming. Well some, I will have a standard and coloured versions.

Probably. It’s a super simple splash. Should be easy to modify.

I was having some issues figuring out why it wasn’t working 😅. Thought if anyone downloaded the broken ones this would be the message they would want to see.

Can’t steal it if it’s free.

Any idea on the original source?

That is awesome.

I think the original creator has been lost to the bowels of the internet. But if the original creator ever does show up just keep it in mind I can’t grant you permission to use it. Then again it’s so simple it might not be up to copyright, I don’t know.

Just want you to know if you are going to use it for a game 👍

It’s a very old gif that’s been floating around the internet for a while. I then tweaked it to make it a better splash screen. It’s a super simple splash screen so feel free to look into the code and mess around. Should be a breeze.

I don’t think it’s an illusion, just mesmerizing.