Customizing Icons

[Salah]

@ikoz Really appreciate your time and effort responding to my question.

To be honest. I am trying to follow you, but am not that expert and do not know how to run a script or how to use your script. Just do not steps.

Just for the record, Apple has recently allowed in her IOS 18 to change icons following Android.

Therefore, that should be pretty easy in Ubuntu Touch and hope this will be considered in the near future, same like Ubuntu Desktop, or if you remember Nokia when changing icons was pretty easy back old days. Even my monster (Nokia N900) has a variety of options and easy hacking and altering, even though it is based on Maemo OS.

FYI, till now am trying to understand how to use commands in UT Terminal, a bit difference using it in my laptop :face_with_tears_of_joy:.

Thanks again and hope to see improvement later on.

By the way, I have installed latest Custom Phablet Tools version and nothing happened.

Regards,

[*Enrico13011978*]

@Salah

[Moem]

@Salah said in Customizing Icons:

Apple has recently allowed in her IOS 18 to change icons following Android.

Therefore, that should be pretty easy in Ubuntu Touch

Sorry, how does one follow from the other?

[Salah]

@Moem I will tell you, Android on its store has tons of icons to be installed and replacing what is in the devices no matter what.

IOS 18 allowed eventually to replace icons, but not like Android of course in terms of implementation. Even though they have icons in Apple Store.

UT OS does not allow to change or replace files in File System due to Permission Denied access to them.

[Moem]

@Salah That's right, it's an immutable system which is an inherent part of its philosophy. It's not a bug, it's intentional for it to be that way. It will not work for everyone, that's for sure.

[ikoz]

@Salah said in Customizing Icons:

UT OS does not allow to change or replace files in File System due to Permission Denied access to them

Actually, the correct way to change the icons is by changing the path specified in the .desktop file. The default path is on /usr/share... e.g.

Icon=path

you can change that to somewhere on /home which is read-write. However Lomiri doesn't check the desktop file for click packages. (As one can see on lomiri-app-launch code).

[*Enrico13011978*]

There is/was definitely a great tool for Ubuntu Touch to change icons and wallpapers. I think it's called custom-phablet-tools used it a lot on Xenial!

[ikoz]

@Enrico13011978 But I have changed the backend to not require remounting root as read-write or sudo. I now call it Icon Changer, as I removed the wallpapers.

[Salah]

@ikoz Thanks for your advice. I will see what I can do.

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[*Enrico13011978*]

Oh well, you will be successful.