morganist ⧖ on Nostr: you may have noticed that in my introduction and bio i talk about being a maintainer ...
you may have noticed that in my introduction and bio i talk about being a maintainer of Papirus icon theme. i'd like to expand a little more on that here
Papirus is an icon theme for desktops that are compliant with Freedesktop icon theme specification. however, we overwhelmingly make icons for Linux applications because that's where our users are.
i really like consistency, so when i got into Linux, icon themes were so mindblowing to me that i immediately started to use Papirus because i like its flat style and colours. and as a bonus, all icons, even full-colour apps icons with complicated elements, are pixel-perfect in this pack. that means it looks so-so neat even on a low-dpi monitors.
fast forward to today, and by contributing a number of icons and generally being involved in development i got invited into Papirus Development Team by the one active original author. he lives in Ukraine, so his regular involvement in the project is not something that should have been expected, and now it appears that there's only me actively working on issues, helping new contributors and merging pull requests. because of life, i can't even find energy to make new icons, so i just do what i can to keep the project alive.
Linux customisation is a constantly changing landscape, but the specification doesn't change much and the icons are reused really often, which allowed Papirus to accumulate 8000 app icons. some of them are for the most obscure software project you've ever heard of, because with the help of open-source development model and documented design guidelines, anyone can contribute, or request, an icon that's missing for them. check Papirus out sometime, if you haven't! and definitely go to our issue tracker if you are interested: https://github.com/PapirusDevelopnemtTheme/papirus-icon-theme
#icons #linux #unixporn #design #freesoftware
Papirus is an icon theme for desktops that are compliant with Freedesktop icon theme specification. however, we overwhelmingly make icons for Linux applications because that's where our users are.
i really like consistency, so when i got into Linux, icon themes were so mindblowing to me that i immediately started to use Papirus because i like its flat style and colours. and as a bonus, all icons, even full-colour apps icons with complicated elements, are pixel-perfect in this pack. that means it looks so-so neat even on a low-dpi monitors.
fast forward to today, and by contributing a number of icons and generally being involved in development i got invited into Papirus Development Team by the one active original author. he lives in Ukraine, so his regular involvement in the project is not something that should have been expected, and now it appears that there's only me actively working on issues, helping new contributors and merging pull requests. because of life, i can't even find energy to make new icons, so i just do what i can to keep the project alive.
Linux customisation is a constantly changing landscape, but the specification doesn't change much and the icons are reused really often, which allowed Papirus to accumulate 8000 app icons. some of them are for the most obscure software project you've ever heard of, because with the help of open-source development model and documented design guidelines, anyone can contribute, or request, an icon that's missing for them. check Papirus out sometime, if you haven't! and definitely go to our issue tracker if you are interested: https://github.com/PapirusDevelopnemtTheme/papirus-icon-theme
#icons #linux #unixporn #design #freesoftware