Please recommend an icon theme for nautilus that shows distinct icons for various programming languages and works well in Dark and Light mode.
Not sure, but I heard that Adwaita shell theme works best with various tools and software and it is officially supported, so I don’t intend to change the shell theme, but only an icon theme that works well with Adwaita theme.
Issue
Currently I am using Fedora 40 (Gnome) and plan to move to Fedora 41 soon.
I have been using default configuration for Nautilus (file manager) as can be seen below:
But I would like to have an icon theme in Nautilus suitable for programmer, that have distinct icons for various file like markdown, JSON, shell script, python, lua, C, C++ etc.
For example, currently the icons look as below (in Nautilus)
I installed papirus-icon-theme-20240501-3.fc40.noarch. But when I do dnf info for papirus-icon-theme-light-20240501-3.fc40.noarch, and papirus-icon-theme-dark-20240501-3.fc40.noarch, it shows that these packages are not installed.
Do I need to install these separately?
$ sudo dnf repoquery papirus-icon-theme-light-20240501-3.fc40.noarch
Last metadata expiration check: 0:14:04 ago on Thu 17 Oct 2024 20:50:09 CEST.
papirus-icon-theme-light-0:20240501-3.fc40.noarch
$ sudo dnf repoquery papirus-icon-theme-20240501-3.fc40.noarch
Last metadata expiration check: 0:14:36 ago on Thu 17 Oct 2024 20:50:09 CEST.
papirus-icon-theme-0:20240501-3.fc40.noarch
Those packages override some icons with color variants for light and dark themes.
This mainly improves the visibility of symbolic icons with higher contrast colors.
May I ask how did you find this difference between the packages? dnf info does not displays this. Did you manually installed it and inferred the difference?
Also, isn’t dnf repoquery papirus-icon-theme-light-20240501-3.fc40.noarch must require papirus-icon-theme-20240501-3.fc40.noarch ?
$ sudo dnf repoquery papirus-icon-theme-light-20240501-3.fc40.noarch
Last metadata expiration check: 0:14:04 ago on Thu 17 Oct 2024 20:50:09 CEST.
papirus-icon-theme-light-0:20240501-3.fc40.noarch