Original Win XP Icons

[srueegger]

Hi

I love your Theme! But i miss the original XP Icons.

[ndwarshuis]

I know what you mean. The problem is that making an icon theme is several orders of magnitude more work than the rest of the theme combined. I actually tried making the icon part when I was initially developing the rest of the theme. It turns out its really easy to basically rip all the icons out of XP's DLL files; the problem is that the max resolution is only 48x48. Also, Cinnamon itself has waaaay more functionality than XP, so most of the analogous icons for Cinnamon don't even exist in XP. Not saying these are impossible to overcome, but it will take time and creativity.

Since you asked I can look into it. It kinda upsets me that I "almost" have a complete XP look-alike. I'm aware of YlmfOS which has some 128x128 icons that I can salvage

[NikoKrause]

@srueegger: What's wrong with the YlmfOS icons (http://www.noobslab.com/2014/05/recall-old-memories-of-xp-with-ylmfos.html)?

Here a comparison screenshot from my pc:

[peterbowey]

@srueegger

I love this original 'XP' style Nostalgic theme layout you present.

It breaks some ice with Linux, and gets the serious IT oldies wiping tears away...

Yes, I promote what CinnXP brings to the Linux GUI (and I do use the theme).

And thanks to @petrucci4prez for the means to revive a visual desktop comfort zone for us 'ancient' oldies - who grew up with zero GUI's and just a command console on a dumb terminal (via Unix) :)

[NikoKrause]

@petrucci4prez
I saw, that you added "Full icon theme" in your ToDoList. Will it be based on the YlmfOS icon theme? Or are you starting from scratch?

As you have written above, there are many icons missing in XP cause cinnamon has more functionality. For example: gedit has two buttons "search" and "search and replace". YlmfOS uses for both the same icon.
What are your plans for this kind of problems? It would need a skilled artist to create new icons, which fit to the XP icon theme. Pitty i'm not very skilled, so I gave up on that :(

But I would like to help, if it's in my power.

I use the YlmfOS icons and liked to tweak them little bit some months ago. I found it a little bit difficult to change the tray icons, i.e. WLAN, mintUpdate, bluetooth, etc. icons on the right corner of the panel. But i got some of them to work.

Maybe you like following idea of mine:
mintUpdate uses icons, which have a similar shape like the XP security icons:
http://werewolfdev.deviantart.com/art/Windows-XP-Security-11288359
So I changed the icons in the settings of mintUpdate.

If you are starting the CinnXP icon project here on github, i would like to follow (and maybe even contribute to). So please let me know, when you open a branch for this project.

[ndwarshuis]

haven't been able to look much into the icon themes yet, focusing on upgrading to gtk3.20 and cinn3 first. Definitely won't be starting from scratch so will probably use YlmfOS as starting point; will also keep some of your above ideas in mind. Also, Win7 and Vista have a few icons that could pass as XP icons stylistically, so might use that to fill in the gaps

[Elbullazul]

@petrucci4prez hi there,

I'm very interested in your XP look-alike pack. If you need help with icons, I can give you a hand, have been maintaining the windows 10 Icon pack for a couple of months now

[ndwarshuis]

would appreciate the help. I have a decent chunk of the icon portion started already...I'll make a branch soon

[dominichayesferen]

@guys
Firstly, about the YlmfOS Icons, they will NOT work properly on later GTK versions (as in newer than 3.12) as the icons appear oversized in applications and menus/buttons and most icons for the tray are also missing in the set...

Secondly, I know a place where you can get bigger XP Icon remakes, one source would be DeviantArt which I found to have bigger Security Center icons, etc and the Windows XP Skin Pack for Windows Vista-10 has lots of bigger remakes of XP's icons inside of it (https://skinpacks.com/download/windows-7/xp-skin-pack/ (Password: "skinpacks.com")) but the only problem is that you would need a program for Windows known as "Resource Hacker" to access the (.res) files containing the icons themselves and then from there, you can batch save "Icon Group" resources to an (.rc) file (which actually saves the icons in seperate (.ico) with all sizes in each icon) and then extract the icons out of those files... Don't worry, it works VERY fine running on just WINE on Linux so you don't need a Windows PC in order for the program to work correctly...

So yeah, those sources might prove useful for the icon set, also, I tried using YlmfOS Icons in my own distribution feren OS (Elbullazul knows what it is) and even then it looked like chaos so that's how I know YlmfOS is no longer compatible with GTK3...

[dominichayesferen]

Any progress with the icon set??

[ndwarshuis]

sorry, life is busy, new branch created

[dominichayesferen]

Some useful links for icons:
http://werewolfdev.deviantart.com/art/Windows-XP-Security-11288359
http://werewolfdev.deviantart.com/art/Microsotf-Office-2003-11663606
http://werewolfdev.deviantart.com/art/Control-Panel-14317741

[NikoKrause]

@petrucci4prez
I like your XP icon pack a lot.

Here are some missing icons I noticed since using this pack.
(1) Missing icons in Menu for the following programms:

• Input method
• USB Image Writer
• USB Stick Formatter

(2) Right Click on a ZIP-file, there is a missing icon for "Extract Here"

Also I noticed, that if I compile your icons and move the compiled folders or rename the folder, all symlinks break.

Suggestions for mintUpdate icons:
Since Cinnamon 3.0 the icons for mintUpdate are themeable, i.e. it is possible to set the icons by changing it in the icon pack, specifically you have to put the mintUpdate icons in the folder "status" in you icon pack (see screenshot below).
Therefore I suggest using the Windows XP security icons from here (http://werewolfdev.deviantart.com/art/Windows-XP-Security-11288359), like in the image below:

[dominichayesferen]

@NikoKrause
Well, thanks for the tip besides this icon set, will be able to know how to do it in my own icon set too now.

[dominichayesferen]

@NikoKrause @petrucci4prez
I'd like to also add that Mint Welcome is now also themable too. The icon you're looking for to theme Mint Welcome is mintwelcome in the Applications folder of the icon set, and for CinnXP, I'd suggest the Windows XP Tour Icon as the icon of MintWelcome...

[dominichayesferen]

@petrucci4prez Any news on the icons?

[ndwarshuis]

Sorry, progress will be slow for the next few months. Immunology is consuming my life at the moment :(

[Elbullazul]

@petrucci4prez @feren I think we can save the Ylmfos icon pack. If we get the icon pack from here : http://www.noobslab.com/2014/05/recall-old-memories-of-xp-with-ylmfos.html
and for the non-scalable icon directories in index.theme replace

Type=Scalable

with

Type=Fixed

I think it should work with the latest GTK
more updates coming soon, other tweaks may be necessary

[dominichayesferen]

@Elbullazul Tried it, doesn't change a single thing

[dominichayesferen]

@srueegger @petrucci4prez Update: The Icon Set YlmfOS HAS BEEN FIXED by @Elbullazul right now...
https://github.com/Elbullazul/WinXP-Icons

[dominichayesferen]

Shall we close this issue now there's an icon set to go with CinnXP?

[dominichayesferen]

Well, everyone says it...

[dominichayesferen]

@petrucci4prez Now there's an icon set by Elbullazul, shall this be closed?