Let’s be honest, the rankings of gnome-look are weird at best and there is no good resource to gauge what icons / cursors / themes people like to use in their everyday DE.
So please share what icon-pack / cursor theme / GTK|QT theme you use, and why.
I just use the papirus icon theme and the rest is pretty much stock. Breeze dark and the white kde plasma cursor theme. I cannot live without white cursors! I also like the new Linux Mint cursor theme a lot tho. Those are some chonky boys.
I use bibata modern cursor + papirus icon theme
De: KDE Plasma Theme: Breeze AlphaBlack Cursors: BreezeX Black
Dark breeze. I’m actively searching for icon alternatives but they are not well integrated with system-color-accent.
I use the default breeze light on plasma. Most themes are broken or just too much. Breeze is great
I really like the Mint Y icons, they’re kinda round with soft colours.
I used to be really into theming. But now, the default Breeze and Adwaita look good enough that I haven’t bothered wanting to change them in a couple years.
That and thmes always appeared to be some degree of “broken” that I just don’t bother anymore.
I do always change the cursor to the black Adwaita one, even on KDE. It just feels right to me.
When I did still use themes, Numix, Arc Dark, and whatever “flat” themes that I could find were my favorites.
Numix icon theme Catppuccin for GTK Apple Cursor
- Colloid GTK Theme (Colloid-Dark)
- Papirus (Papirus-Dark)
- Adwaita Cursor Theme
I used the Equilux GTK theme for years but it’s been abandoned since 2018 and GNOME has changed a lot since then. I switched to Colloid and it didn’t take much to tweak it to my liking, mainly reducing the size of the titlebar and panel.
Not an icon theme exactly, but Milosz Wlazlo’s Basket Monsters, which I originally picked up off kdelook sometime around 2007, are old friends that I use to represent my machine’s various hard drives. I just find them amusing, I guess.
KDE Theme: Pitch Black
Icons: Korla
I use Plasma with Breeze Dark theme and icons and adwaita cursors. Boring but works for me.
Theme: depends. I’m rocking Gnome on my laptop, so something like Otis looks good in it. Kripton or Jasper (what I typically use in XFCE) also look nice regardless of DE IMO. Just depends, but mostly, it’s a dark theme so my already meh eyes are spared a flashbang. Very original, I know.
Icons: Gruvbox Plus. Dunno, just always kinda feel it. Guess I like the designs? Also love me some Win10Sur and Reversal Icons.
Cursor: Bibata, typically. Oreo Cursors, if i feel like adding more pazazz and color…which is most of the time, honestly (also helps make my mouse easy to find. Not that my desktop is cluttered it’s just nice to immededly know where it’s at with a glance).
The only correct answer is Qogir Dark with Papirus Icon Theme and breeze cursors
do you know Bibata cursors?
i like them more than Breeze, but Breeze is my second favorite of all cursor themes i know
Both are great. I really can’t decide. I use the white breeze cursor theme for now, but the damn bibata cursors are always tempting me.
Bibata kinda covers up everything for me it’s really fat imo
. I frequently swap between XFCE and Gnome, and it works very nicely on both. I like the big square window buttons, like how windows does it, because it makes it easier to click rather then a small circle like most themes. Also I just like the look better.
