Frequent updates are a major reason why the Papirus icon set is so popular with Linux users. After all, it’s annoying to switch to a stylish icon set that doesn’t have icons for most of your apps, ruining the vibe.
Not so with Papirus. It’s perpetually expanding its coverage through regular updates.
Papirus’s second update this year adds 69 new icons—nice—and 18 updated ones. It also includes packaging and DE changes, and deprecates its ePapirus variants since elementaryOS 8 no longer lets users change icons in Wingpanel.
New app icons1Â add to the Papirus icon setÂin this update include:
- AudioTube
- BalenaEtcher
- Beeper
- Cardo Podcast Client
- CoolerControl
- Cromite
- Decibels
- DOSBox Staging
- Ente Photos
- Filen
- fooyin
- GNOME Showtime
- Insomnia Designer
- Karp
- Klassy
- LocalSend
- Mihomo Party
- Mouse Actions GUI
- Northgard
- NymVPN
- Pianoteq Stage
- Picture of the Day
- pwvucontrol
- Prism Launcher
- QDiskInfo
- QPhotoRec
- RemNote
- RenderDoc
- RetroArch (v1.20.1+)
- RQuickShare
- ShadPS4
- Skanpage
- TheXTech
- SMBX
- Yandex Music
- Zed (Flathub)
New file type, symbolic, action and tray icons include:
- Akregator (tray icon)
- Amarok (tray icon)
- BluemanÂ(symbolic icons)
- CrystalÂ
*.cr files - AlpmÂ
.pkg.tar files - CoreCtrl (symbolic)
- Telegram (symbolic)
- qBittorrent (action icons)
- Nightlight (Cinnamon settings)
- VLCÂ (tray icon for Plasma 6)
- Elisa (tray icon)
- Kdenlive (action icons)
- kMail (tray icon)
- kNotes (symbolic)
- Kup (tray icon)
- kGet (tray icon)
- firewalled (action icons)
- Spectacle (action icons)
- Yakuake (tray icon)
- Wine (symbolic)
- Kate (tray icon)
- Nautilus (46+, symbolic)
Plus, this update updates icons for many apps and UI elements, offering improved glyphs for Deezer, CPU-X, Ghostty, and WeChat apps, refreshed panel icons for CPUFreq indicator and the Xfce4 CPU graph plugin, caps-lock and num-lock, and more.
Finally, a lot of work has gone into improving Paprius’ support for KDE Plasma 6. Icons added for KickOff, widgets and Plasma panel, OSD, etc, and assorted symbolic, app and category icons for use in the KDE Discover software hub.
In all, another solid update for this popular icon pack.
Install Papirus Icons on Ubuntu
You can download Papirus icon from GitHub, then manually move the extracted folder to the relevant location (~/.local/icons, off the top of my head).
But honestly? It’s easier to install Papirus in Ubuntu, Linux Mint et al using the official PPA. This provides packages for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and later:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:papirus/papirus
sudo apt update && sudo apt install papirus-icon-theme
Once installed, change icon theme using your a tool (on Ubuntu, something like GNOME Tweaks or Refine, other desktop environments may have native options/tools).
That’s this update to Paprius unfurled – let me know if you’re using it in the comments!
- A few of the are actually symlinks to existing icons, so ‘new’ in the sense the apps in question do now get styled with a Papirus icon. ↩︎
Credits: OMGUbuntu.co.uk
