Paper Icons 1.3 (Theme) is Available PPA for Ubuntu Detivative System
Paper is a modern freedesktop icon theme whose design is based around the use of bold colours and simple geometric shapes to compose icons.
While it does take some inspiration from the icons in Google's Material Design, some design aspects have been adjusted to better suit a desktop environment.
A Few Notes
- Paper is requires at minimum a GTK 3.16 environment and a window manager with client-side decoration support.
- The GTK2 portion of Paper requires the pixbuf engine gtk2-engine-pixbuf to be installed to draw most elements.
- The colourful headerbar style is limited to apps that sport header bars and even then it is limited to a select few apps.
Ubuntu & Ubuntu-Based
For Ubuntu and related distros, there's a daily builds PPA, which provides frequent updates of changes, bug fixes and additions.
To Install Paper Icons 1.3 (Theme) on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems , open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:snwh/pulp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install paper-icon-theme paper-gtk-theme
Install From Source (GIT) :
Paper icon theme :
git clone https://github.com/snwh/paper-icon-theme.git
cd paper-icon-theme
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
Paper desktop theme :
git clone https://github.com/snwh/paper-gtk-theme.git
cd paper-gtk-theme
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.
