SMPlayer Theme Faenza : An Elegant SMPlayer Theme To Match With Faenza Icon Theme

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In Linux world, there are many Media Player today. But for me, I've had my own choice : SMPlayer. It is a Qt based front-end for Mplayer, the (probably) greatest media player in Linux. By default, SMPlayer is capable to play almost all media format exist today. With w32codecs, it will be the perfect one ! Also, now, SMPlayer has already supported Mplayer2 (the next generation of Mplayer). It is better than VLC, and it is far more better than Totem.

Meanwhile, there is an icon theme that has been very popular in Linux desktop named Faenza Icon Theme. It is a simple but elegant, squared icon theme created by Tiheum. From the first release, I've admired this icon theme so much and I always use this icon theme and I've never been bored. It matchs so much with the Ubuntu's Light Themes.

Because of the those two great things, I've decided to make a little thing to meet the elegant look of Faenza to Smplayer. And finally, I've successfully arranged a theme for Smplayer based on Faenza Icon Theme and now I have my beloved Smplayer presents with my favorite icon theme.

As usual, I pack my little work into a debian package so you all debian and ubuntu users could use my little work easily. I packed the theme into deb and we could install it easily in our Smplayer installation. According to the ubuntu repository, I've made the package depends on smplayer-themes package so we need to make sure that the package smplayer-themes is installed. If not, we have to install it first :

sudo apt-get install smplayer-themes

Then, we can install the theme simply by terminal : sudo dpkg -i smplayer-theme-faenza_1.0-alwan1_all.deb. To use the theme, we just need to go to the Preferences menu in Options>Preferences>Interface>Icon Set and select the Faenza icon set. That's all. I hope you enjoy it.

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smplayer-theme-faenza_1.0-alwan1_all.deb

How To Fix Inappropriate Faenza Icon Theme Distributor Logo / Start Here Logo In Gnome Session Fallback in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Ubuntu 12.04, GNOME Session Fallback, Faenza Icon Theme

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Faenza Icon Theme is a very popular icon theme in Linux desktop. But, strangely, in Ubuntu 12.04 GNOME Session Fallback mode, this theme doesn't work perfect. The distributor logo doesn't appear perfect if we use Faenza Dark (it just appears orange square Ubuntu logo, not white circle Ubuntu logo). So, how to fix this? After explored, I found that the start-here logo has been moved into apps directory not in places like before. So what we have to do? What we have to do is not simple but it worked good in my machine.

Here are the steps :

1. Go to /usr/share/icons with nautilus with administrator mode. We could do this by terminal :
   sudo nautilus /usr/share/icons
2. Make file search by clicking search button, and search files named icon-theme.cache. When searching process done, remove 'em all.
3. Install Faenza Icon Theme. We have to download the newer version specified for Precise from HERE.
4. Remove Humanity Icon Theme (by terminal)
   sudo rm -rf /usr/share/icons/Humanity -v
5. Make a soft link for Humanity icon theme to Feanza icon theme
   sudo ln -s /usr/share/icons/Faenza /usr/shar/icons/Humanity -v
6. Remove these icons and replace them with another appropriate icons
   sudo rm /usr/share/icon/ubuntu-mono-dark/22/distributor-logo.svg -v
   sudo rm /usr/share/icon/ubuntu-mono-dark/22/start-here.svg -v
   Then, make soft link for the replacement into Faenza-Dark icon theme
   sudo ln -s /usr/share/icons/Faenza-Dark/places/24/start-here-ubuntu.png /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-dark/apps/22/start-here.png -v
   sudo ln -s /usr/share/icons/Faenza-Dark/places/24/start-here-ubuntu.png /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-dark/apps/22/distributor-logo.png -v
7. Logout and Login back to the GNOME Session Fallback and now we have our ultimate Classic GNOME back in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.