So I explored the icons folder of Inkscape, /usr/share/inkscape/icons on Linux and %ProgramFiles%\Inkscape\share\icons on Windows, and I found two files: icons.svg and tango_icons.svg. That means Inkscape already comes with Tango icons! Except they’re not enabled by default.

Here’s how to change those ugly Inkscape interface icons to the much more beautiful Tango icons!

On Linux, just open a terminal, run the following command and restart Inkscape:

$ ln -s /usr/share/inkscape/icons/tango_icons.svg ~/.inkscape/icons/icons.svg

On Windows, navigate to %ProgramFiles%\Inkscape\share\icons. Rename icons.svg to something else like old_icons.svg and rename tango_icons.svg to icons.svg. Then restart Inkscape.

Et voila! You’re good to go Click the image below for a before/after screenshot! No, I didn’t make that Tango Ubuntu icon.

Inkscape before and after applying Tango icons

BoltPress, also the official blog.NOVALISTIC, the blog you’re reading right now, turns one year old since its launch!!!

And with that comes the theme of BoltPress 2.0, a complete revamp with a touch of Tango just for fun, and many more rounded corners than you saw in Potassium (but you won’t get to see all of them unless you’re using Firefox or Safari). This new design is not NOVALISTIC 3.0′s design; that was much greener and glossier than this. Trust me. Neither will this become NOVALISTIC 4.0′s design. If there ends up being a NOVALISTIC 4.0 in the first place. Go speculate.

If you wish to find out more about the new theme, keep reading…

I started designing this theme in Photoshop in January, but worked really slowly. I started working a little harder and faster when I finally began writing my first HTML code for the theme.

If you take a look at the source code now you’ll see a part of it that looks like this (EDIT [6/23]: BoltPress 2.0.14 saw code changes here, updated to reflect that change):

        <!-- Container - conserve space by leaving out some indentation -->
        <div id="container-l" class="container-part">
        <div id="container-r" class="container-part">
        <div id="container-inner-l" class="container-inner-part">
        <div id="container-inner-r" class="container-inner-part">
        <div id="container">

Well, I know that’s not a very good sign but that was my best try in getting a fluid layout with images at the side to define rounded corners and drop shadows and stuff like that. Oh and not to mention the overlay of the gradient background to give a translucent surface effect.

I worked on this on and off instead of full-time (I am finally getting a life), that’s why it took pretty long. But meh. Here it is! Also, I hope the Tango icons spruce things up a bit. I enjoyed using them

Well, that’s about it for my new theme. Enjoy, and of course feel free to say what you may about it and I’ll take a note!