When making a custom launcher, it is nice to have a matching icon for it from the default usr ubuntu directories. The problem that is: Ubuntu seems to store icons in about 50 or more folders. Browsing all of them in nautilus takes ages.
So my question is:
Is there some kind of icon browser that shows an overview of all icons in /usr/share/icons/*?
Best Answer
Instead of opening the folders one by one, you can also use the Search feature of Nautilus. Navigate to
/usr/share/icons
, and press the Search icon on the right of the toolbar.Search for
.
(all images have an extension with a dot before it) and press Enter. On a default installation, this yields about 17.5k images. That's not much of an "overview", but it includes all files in/usr/share/icons
.If you wish to avoid searching each time, you could make use of symbolic links to the images: all images are accessible from one big folder.
To check the number of files that can be created after creating the links:
You should not continue if the number is lower than 1000 and a negative number will cause the operation to fail after some time.
icons-all
by running:mkdir icons-all
cd icons-all
nano /tmp/make-icons-link
Paste:
Now generate the links, this may take a while:
After the command has completed, no output is shown.
exit
~/icons-all
. Loading this directory may take a while