Lüv FAQ

What is Lüv?

Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.

Lüv is an icon theme for freedesktop environments like Gnome, Plasma, XFCE, Mate, etc.

It features colors from Google’s Material Design color palette but they're not Material Design icons. These icons do not follow the Material Design guidelines; they have their own. So please do not refer to them as such.

Its name is pronounced as Love.

Creating New Issues

Lüv works on every desktop that follows the freedesktop standards.

• If an icon is blurry, it's missing. Report it.
• if an icon is the default application icon, it's missing. Report it
• If an icon is from the environment default icons like Adwaita, Breeze or Oxygen, it's missing. Report it.

If you find any of those cases read the README to properly report a missing icon.

• if the icon is in the theme and it's still not showing up please contact the developer of that software and kindly suggest to not use absolute paths in their launchers. You may use Hardcoded Icon Fixer to resolve this problem in the meantime.

Completeness

Lüv will eventually contain icons for all desktop environments; all recent versions of course. That basically means two things:

• #1: Lüv will not have 15,678 icons. Many of those icons are no longer needed by the recent versions of said desktop environments.
• #2: Lüv won't ship with 6 versions (sizes) of some icons, why? because doing that makes developers not use icons properly, using an icon from the /actions folder as an application icon or vice versa because "it works" is bad practice. Icons should be selected depending on where they will be used in the interface and not at random.

So, the icons that are added to the theme are exactly those that are required. No more, no less.

Using it in GTK 3 Systems

Gnome Shell, Cinnamon, Budgie and Pantheon use symbolic icons. Lüv ships with symbolic icons but they're not used by default. You can enable that by opening the index.theme file inside Lüv and Lüv Dark, scrolling to the bottom of the file and following the instructions there.

Using it in GTK 2 Systems

No extra steps needed.

Using it in Qt Systems

No extra steps needed.

Contributions

There are no style guides yet but there will be. It will be of the utmost importance that if you want to contribute you follow them though.

Licensing and Distribution

This icon theme is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. This license allows you to:

• Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
• Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material

Under the following terms:

• Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
• ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

Not version 3.0, not GPL, not LPGL, not BY-NC or any other license, it should be the same license. If You fail to comply with this Public License, then Your rights under this Public License terminate automatically.

The full license text is included in the LICENSE file inside the theme's folders and should be included in distributed packages.

The wallpapers included in the repository are also licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.

Notes

• Lüv is only available in SVG form and I have no plans to export it to raster images like PNGs.
• Lüv is a production-ready icon theme there's no need for compiling or building at all.
• Lüv is free and gratis artwork but living costs are not. If you are able, please, consider sponsoring its development. You can do so by going here: http://uriherrera.com/sponsor/ and selecting an amount you're comfortable with.
• If you're looking for Flattr it's available to download from here.