Refresh your desktop with NITRUX, multiple-flavors icon theme

Submitted by razvi on October 13, 2012 - 20:26

Icons are sometimes a mean of both beautifying the desktop and enhancing its usability, latter quality especially achieved with intuitive clear clean icons (exposed on the Unity panel, where the used size forces the icon to be properly designed, as well on the Dash, from where full-of-visual-detail icons are immediately picked and accessed, if the user identifies them as their intended purpose).

NITRUX icon pack is a solid bundle of icons, presenting the user a massive amount of icons suitable for Ubuntu's key areas.

A definitely interesting aspect of NITRUX is its enlarged user target, expressing via its flavors various use cases, user preferences, various theme types, etc.

NITRUX comes with 5 different variants:

  • NITRUX is an icon theme aimed at light themes (such as Radiance), combining monochrome symbolic icons with squared vivid icons, mix bringing an exotic look & feel on the desktop.
    Opening Nautilus, one can enjoy a pleasant contrast between the sidebar's monochrome icons and the diversity of used colors (square yellow folders, green ZIP files, red-ish music items, blue-ish DOC files, red-ish EPUB files, red-ish DEB files, etc).
    Opening the Dash, the user is faced with square icons, properly fitting into the Dash, furthermore, NITRUX covers a vast amount of icons, consequently, the Dash's icons look consistent, integrated and occupying-an-optimal-space look & feel.
    System Setting benefits an enhanced attention, receiving its needed icons, as well as monochrome category-related icons.


  • NITRUX Azure follows the above NITRUX, adding aqua-style folders and minor changes, while being usable under light themes.

  • NITRUX Buttons introduce a rounded icon approach, while retaining a color diversity and a care for details, dark monochrome icons for Unity panel, category icons for System Settings, full Gedit toolbar "coverage", pleasant-to-the-eye appearance in the Dash, etc.
    NITRUX Buttons use branded icons for user folders, meaning, Documents, Videos, Music, Pictures, etc, are expressed with fancy icons (as opposed to regular "stock" folders).
  • NITRUX Dark adds a dark-ish pattern (used by various icons) used in relation to dark folders and both rectangular and rounded icons, thus generating an interesting mix of diverse icon types, shapes and colors.
    NITRUX Dark is recommended to be used for light themes.

  • NITRUX Clear-All addresses dark themes, exposing white-ish monochrome icons on the Unity Panel, Gedit's toolbar, etc, and the mentioned vivid icon approach and yellow folders.
  • NITRUX Mint mintifies the Ubuntu desktop, featuring green folders and an overall mintified experience.
    NITRUX Mint targets dark GTK+ themes.

How do we install NITRUX 1.9D?

  • first, download the archive
  • then, unpack it and copy the resulted folders (EXTRAS, NITRUX, NITRUX-Azure, NITRUX-Buttons, NITRUX-Clear-All, NITRUX-Dark, NITRUX-Mint) to .icons (press Ctrl+H under the home folder, in order to make the hidden .icons folder visible) or /usr/share/icons
  • finally, select the theme via Ubuntu Tweak, My Unity, Unsettings

The theme is available via PPAs, too, for a full list of PPAs, navigate to http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Nitrux+OS+Icons?content=154496

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