Lila icon set

Here’s another small update to our quite comprehensive KDE version of the Lila icon set. That's because I decided to postpone renaming the icons to conform to the Tango icon naming specification, until KDE has switched to it.

The Lila theme is based on SVG vector graphics, which also makes it possible to regenerate the icons in other colors than the original purple ones. Its KDE version currently features over 700 icons, even if there's still a long way to go to reach Danny Allen's Monochrome icons :)

There are five packages, one with original Lila colors and three other ones in different color schemes (blue, red and white). The SVG sources are primarily available from our Subversion server, but are also provided as a tarball here.

Although the KDE version of the cross-desktop Lila icon set is, in theory, only one out of many, the other versions are currently dead due to lack of developers. We appreciate every new icon, as well as help with packaging or creation of new themes. If you want to help or learn more about the Lila theme, you're invited to visit our home page where we also provide forums, more screenshots and drawing guidelines.

To install one of the pre-rendered PNG versions, just unpack the folder inside the archive to /usr/share/icons/ (if you want them accessible for all users) or to ~/.kde/share/icons/ (if you want them just for yourself), then choose the icon set in the control center.

To render and install the SVG source package, open a terminal in the extracted folder and execute './generate.py --install'.

0.8.3
This release concentrates on making the icons used by KMail/Kontact and Amarok more complete. (In order to get Amarok to show the icons, you have to seperately disable the "Use custom icon theme" option in Amarok's Appearance settings, in addition to selecting the icon set.)

Also enjoy new application icons for Wine, KGpg and Wireless Assistant.

In addition to the icon additions, we now have a package just containing the SVG source files, for those who want to tinker with the icons and don't like SVN. (It's also practical for people with little bandwidth, as the PNG icons can be generated with a simple script that's also inside the package.)

0.8.2
This is not such a big update than the previous ones were, but nevertheless should be enjoyable for many of you.
The most important KDE 3.5 icon gaps were filled, for example you get zoom-to-page and zoom-to-width icons now, and the KMenu's "Switch User" submenu is no more that awfully green. In addition to many detail improvements there are also a few new icons, most notably Konversation, Kile and (tada!) amaroK.

This will probably be the last lila-kde release, the plan is to migrate to the Tango icon naming specification which will most likely be adopted for KDE 4. But maybe I get to draw a few new icons till then and release another one though. Let's see.

For a more detailed track record of changes, see the ChangeLog file in the Subversion repository, available at http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/lila-theme/trunk/lila/kde/ChangeLog?rev=230&view=markup

0.8.1
More completeness for Konqueror and a good number of new icons everywhere. Additionally, there's a new white color mod and no more Gentoo g-logos in important icons anymore, which is cool for people preferring other distros.

More changes in the ChangeLog file at http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/lila-theme/trunk/lila/kde/ChangeLog?rev=205&view=markup .

0.8
Well, the KDE port has a new maintainer and countless new or modified icons. Most of them come from the GNOME set, but several main applications (Konqueror, Kontact, Kopete & Akregator) now have original KDE icons.

An accurate change log (since lila-kde 0.7.1) can be found at http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/lila-theme/trunk/lila/kde/ChangeLog?rev=259&view=markup .