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I followed this answer to install the default gnome theme on my Ubuntu install.

I have found though that adwaita-icon-theme-full still has the old brown adwaita icons.

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Is there any way I can get the new blue ones like below?

blue adwaita

I would prefer a way where I also get updates, so downloading the theme once isnt really an option for me.

  • Is there a ppa?
  • Can I specify that I want the newer version of Adwaita icons somewhere?
  • Is there a flatpak?
  • Is there a snap?
  • Is there something else?
Samuel
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I know this isn't the answer you were hoping for, but your choices are limited. According to the info available [here], Jakub Steiner pushed some updates to the main branch 5 days ago (at the time of this posting). I suggest that if the colors of the folders are important to you you might wish to update the theme via gitlab. A deeper dive into the READMEindicates that and I quote "The color of the icon set is defined at runtime by gtk. Every single icon from the set is actually embedded inside an xml container that has a stylesheet overriding the colors." You can either clone the code with git or just download it from here as as seen below. Alternatively, you can simply accept the conditions as they are or modify the code to suit yourself. enter image description here

I hope this information is useful to you.

Elder Geek
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I'm using my own icon theme, which inherits from gnome. Look at pling for a theme that suites you. Note that there are also "icon subsets".

Elementary or Mint themes are rather close to the gnome theme (in fact they inherit from them) - so the next update of the gnome icons won't bother you very much.

The advantage of having your "own" icon theme is, that you can extend it any time or change only certain icons.

Someone implemented blue folder icons. You might change the entry Inherits=to "gnome,hicolor" in the file index.theme

To make this clear: You will have to download these icons and copy them into /usr/share/icons. With gnome tweaks, you will select your new icon theme. Since this theme was introduced from the outside, it will not be updated, since they are not known to your package manager.

Why does Ubuntu have not "blue folders"? The changes have been made upstream, and it'll take a while until they reach this distro. Since you have the gnome theme installed, you can switch any time after an update brought the new blue icons. Meanwhile, you use your downloaded theme without any interference.

kanehekili
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