Customizing Icons

ikoz

@Salah
Use the .click built from the hacky-works branch (should be the latest artifact), then

Create your folder:
/home/phablet/Downloads/icons/
Rename your icons accordingly, must match the names here
Another way to get the names (even of the apps not already available):
Install an icon pack e.g., line, then:
ls /opt/click.ubuntu.com/icon-changer.ikozyris/current/assets/backup/
You should get something like this:

address-book-app.svg       logviewer.ruditimmer.png
calculator.ubports.svg     lomiri-system-settings.svg
calendar.ubports.png       mediaplayer-app.png
camera.ubports.png         messaging-app.svg
camera.ubports.svg         morph-browser.svg
ciborium.svg               music.ubports.svg
clock.ubports.svg          notes.ubports.svg
dialer-app.svg             openstore.openstore-team.svg
filemanager.ubports.svg    terminal.ubports.svg
gallery.ubports.svg        weather.ubports.svg
icon-changer.ikozyris.svg

Your icons should match the name of each app.
Preferably, restore to defaults before installing your own, or copy the backup directory somewhere else.
3. Type the path /home/phablet/Downloads/icons/ on the text box (with last /):

4. Press "Go!"

Salah

@ikoz Did all that nothing happne. My folder name is UC even though I have inserted /home/phablet/Downloads/icons/UC.

Also typed /home/phablet/Downloads/icons/ and nothing happen

So any advice ?

ikoz

@Salah You can replace the backup directory with your icons, and then "restore". Not the best way, but it works.

Salah

@ikoz Hello again, I want to tell you that I have being trying to make this work so many times since yesterday till day and did not work. I really do not know why after putting the path is not functioning. Maybe from the program not letting any new icons to be deployed or something else.

Just for assurance.

Are you putting the path like this => /home/phablet/Downloads/icons/ or after => /icons/(Folder Name).

Can you make a screenshot from your device how it is written??

Thanks

Salah

Just for asking.

Is there any way to change the dash (Ubuntu Logo) to other icons??

ikoz

@Salah
Sorry for the confusion, just tested and it works only if the path doesn't have a / at the end.
e.g. /home/phablet/Downloads/icons
The path can be anywhere you want, as the script is run with sudo.

Are you putting the path like this => /home/phablet/Downloads/icons/ or after => /icons/(Folder Name).

Do not enter any newline, it appears on a new line due to line wrapping

Is there any way to change the dash (Ubuntu Logo) to other icons??

Nothing I'm aware of. It could be somewhere on /usr/share/icons/suru/.

Salah

@ikoz I have tried => /home/phablet/Downloads/icons and I have tried /home/phablet/Downloads/icons/UC.

Both did not work. I do not know why it is not working.

I have copied suru folder. Changed icon theme name and changed svg files with exact file name.

Nothing is happening.

ikoz

@Salah Are your icons in icons/ or UC/? The path can be anywhere, not just in Downloads and the icons must be like path/icon.svg.
Did you try replacing the backup directory with your icons and click restore?
Are you using the latest version?
If you know some bash scripting you can see the script at: /opt/click.ubuntu.com/icon-changer.ikozyris/current/assets/customicon.sh.
It must be ran from /opt/click.ubuntu.com/icon-changer.ikozyris/current/.

Salah

@ikoz I am using /home/phablet/Downloads/icons/UC

Thats it and it is not working.

What a I did actually is taking suru's folder and altered svg icons and png form sources and so.

Renamed folder to UC including files inside and then sent a copy to my device in icons folder.

So it is really frustrating and suppose to be easy.

Even though I have tried Humanity icons which is already inside the device. Took the folder and put the path. Nothing Happen.

Therefore, could you please give me a screen shot for a successful icons from your side. I want to see how did you put the path.

Thanks for being patience.

Ian

@ikoz It might be worth confirming owners/groups and rwx of the icon folders and files.

Salah

@Ian Hello,

I want to tell you that I have tried several times with different icons folder but nothing happens.

I do not know what is wrong with this app and I think am going to give up trying for nothing.

Hope on next update to facilitate changing icons.

Ian

@Salah please wait for ikoz to confirm ownership and permissions of the files and folders before giving up.

ikoz

@Salah Please try the latest version and send the logs.
Alternatively, run the following script from /opt/click.ubuntu.com/icon-changer.ikozyris/current/ with parameter your icon path.

#!/bin/bash

echo "$1"
pwd
sudo mount -o rw,remount /

echo "remounted as RW"

list_icons=$(
cd /usr/share/applications/ || exit
grep -P "^Icon=.+(png|svg)$" *.desktop | sed 's/.desktop:Icon=/":"/;s/^/"/;s/$/",/'

cd /home/phablet/.local/share/applications || exit
grep -P "^Icon=.+(png|svg)$" *.desktop | sed 's/.desktop:Icon=/":"/;s/^/"/;s/$/",/'
)

echo "Got icons"

mapfile -t list_icons_name < <(grep -Po '(?<=")[^"]+(?=":)' <<< "$list_icons")
mapfile -t list_icons_path < <(grep -Po '(?<=:")[^"]+(?=")' <<< "$list_icons")

echo "got names/paths"

cd assets || exit

# Create a backup directory of the original icons
if [ ! -d "backup" ]; then
    mkdir backup
fi

# Loop for each installed app
for index in ${!list_icons_name[*]}; do
    echo -e "\n Current file: $index"
    list_icons_ext=${list_icons_path[$index]##*.}
    list_icons_rename=${list_icons_name[$index]%%_*}

    # Copy the original files in the backup directory if they don't exist
    if [ ! -f "backup/$list_icons_rename.$list_icons_ext" ]; then
        sudo cp "${list_icons_path[$index]}" "backup/$list_icons_rename.$list_icons_ext"
    fi

    echo "Checking $list_icons_rename.$list_icons_ext"
    # Copy the icons if they exist
    if [ -f "$1/$list_icons_rename.$list_icons_ext" ]; then
        echo "Copying"
        sudo cp -v "$1/$list_icons_rename.$list_icons_ext" "${list_icons_path[$index]}"
    fi
    cd ..
done

sudo mount -o ro,remount /

@Ian said in Customizing Icons:

It might be worth confirming owners/groups and rwx of the icon folders and files.

Shouldn't be a problem as the script runs with sudo.

Salah said in Customizing Icons:

Hope on next update to facilitate changing icons.

My current problem is that lomiri-app-launch doesn't read the .desktop files, but uses hard-coded desktop files from the click package,

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!