MoreWaita

An Adwaita styled companion icon theme with extra icons for popular apps to fit with Gnome Shell's original icons.
The purpose of this theme is to provide third-party apps with a consistent look and feel in Gnome Shell.

NB: This theme requires Adwaita in order to work.

This theme is built mostly upon the work of Gnome's Adwaita designers and Gnome Circle apps' developers, as well as Papirus theme designers, with a touch of tinkering from myself, @dusansimic, @julianfairfax and others here and there. The theme provides icons for the most popular apps people really do install and use, and also covers the most frequently installed dependency GUI apps that almost nobody uses (like Avahi browsers, QT Designer, Software token, etc.).

The goal of MoreWaita is to add to Adwaita, not modify it, and to do roughly what Breeze does for KDE. This theme does not override any Adwaita icons, nor any Gnome Circle apps icons, nor icons that generally fit into the Adwaita paradigm (like Transmission GTK). Currently, this theme is way less all-inclusive than many others, but the aim is to be on par with Papirus some day. However, this is (mostly) a one-man hobby effort, albeit with some greatly appreciated help, so suggestions, requests, PRs and contributions are very welcome. In the meantime, I'll focus on adding icons that the community is requesting.

For most icons, especially branded ones, the general idea is to stay as close as possible to the original icons – to the point of using them in full – and giving them the distinct Adwaita 'perspective' and general flatness. One thing this theme deviates from is the Gnome colour palette in brand icons – MoreWaita keeps the brand colours.

This theme is built and tested against vanilla Gnome on Arch Linux. If an icon is in the theme, but is not applying to your app, please open an issue and mention the icon name referenced in your app's .desktop file.

Installation

Manual installation

Download the theme

git clone https://github.com/somepaulo/MoreWaita.git

Enter the downloaded folder

cd MoreWaita

Install system-wide (recommended)

sudo ./install.sh
This copies the whole theme folder without the build files into /usr/share/icons/. You will be prompted for your password.

Install for local user

./install.sh
This copies the whole theme folder without the build files into ~/.local/share/icons/.

Update

Use the same steps as for installation.

Uninstall

Simply chose another theme and then delete the entire MoreWaita folder from either /usr/share/icons/ or ~/.local/share/icons/ depending on your installation choice above.

Arch Linux

AUR package (versioned)

AUR package (git)

Julian's repository

Fedora Linux

COPR repository

1. Enable COPR repository dnf copr enable dusansimic/themes
2. Install the package dnf install morewaita-icon-theme

Ubuntu/Debian Linux

Julian's repository

Activation

Either use the Tweaks app to choose and activate the icon theme or run the following command:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme 'MoreWaita'

Using custom folder icons

1. Open Files (Nautilus).
2. Find the folder you wish to change the icon for.
3. Right click on the folder.
4. Click on Properties.
5. Click on the folder image.
6. Navigate to the MoreWaita installation folder and into the places subfolder (typically /usr/share/icons/MoreWaita/places/scalable/).
7. Select the icon you wish to use.
8. Click Open.
9. Follow the same procedure to revert the icon. Just click Revert instead of selecting a new icon in step 7.

Troubleshooting

Theme doesn't apply

If the theme doesn't apply try the following command:

For system-wide installation

sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f -t /usr/share/icons/MoreWaita && xdg-desktop-menu forceupdate

For local installation

gtk-update-icon-cache -f -t ~/.local/share/icons/MoreWaita && xdg-desktop-menu forceupdate

Some apps don't get themed

If the theme applies, but a particular app doesn't get themed (and its icon is in MoreWaita), check its respective .desktop file. Some apps have icon paths hardcoded into their .desktop file or have a different icon name set there or no icon set at all. This can differ between distros. If you happen to have such apps, you'll need to copy their .desktop files into ~/.local/share/applications and modify them there providing the correct icon name. Alternatively, use a menu editor like MenuLibre or Alacarte.
If your app's .desktop file references an icon name not present in MoreWaita's apps/scalable folder, please report it in an issue providing the icon name from your system.

The icons

These screenshots show icons currently in git, versioned releases may be behind