[share] Budgie Start Menu Icons

Marxi

Hello everyone, new member here. I'd just like to share some Budgie icons I customized for myself with you folks. If perhaps anyone decides to adopt these in releases, modify or anything I also give my a-ok (I don't know if it's needed but just in case. Consider it the same license as Budgie itself for all intents and purposes). All of them in Inkscape svg format. I myself am using the last one.

Below the example of my menu with it

Solarmass

Nice! I had a little fun in Inkscape 🙂

brent

Marxi YuriTheHenrique Solarmass Was wondering if anyone can indulge me. I've never done a graphic switcheroo before. I need the play-by-play.
I do dislike the 'foot' and disliked the 9 dots (depending on scheme) that make the menu button but I love the other icons from surfn/vertex.
I saved the cool purple .svg above to my desktop folder (I did).
Now what? Kick the nine dots picture out of the folder? Copy/move purple svg into some folder? Replace with new .svg? Fake budgie into believing the new purple pic is part of the suite? Resize? Create symlink? Etc?
Thanks for any mini-tutorial.

Andril

Solarmass cool how do i make the background transparent

Marxi

The teal one is my favourite among these! Glad you're enjoying it 😄

YuriTheHenrique

Noice! Loved the pink one, can someone do that to Solus logo? I use one, but it is not colored, just plain white...

Marxi

YuriTheHenrique I hope these are to your liking. You can edit both in Inkscape as well. You can find the original one in the branding page of Solus' main site.

YuriTheHenrique

Solarmass Ohh Saucy!

Marxi Thanks, loved it! I don't have much experience in inkscape, I used gimp to create original Budgie logo svg back then, it was a nightmare, I don't even know how exacly we did it, but we did... I'm useless with vectors.

brent it is because the screenshot app places your mouse pointer off the screen, top left to be exact, and budgie-menu is thinking you are hovering it...

User_007

Marxi
Thank you! I really like the grey ones. Would be nice to take them into the offical desktop-branding 🙂

Solarmass

brent I assume you can change the icon in the Budgie Settings:

brent I do dislike the 'foot' and disliked the 9 dots (depending on scheme)

9 dots are okay 😛
maybe they need more colors 🙂 💡

Marxi

brent I use the Budgie edition, so what I describe is regarding Budgie only. On Budgie Desktop Settings, go to the panel properties here your Budgie Menu is set. By clicking "Menu Icon" you can choose the custom images you saved, either it be a .png or .svg file. The advantage of a svg file is that it can fit any panel size without getting pixelated, but a decently sized png works just as well.

craigtoyoracer

The nice thing is you can use just about anything 🙂
I put .png files in a /Doc folder and switch for moods, occasions

The Solus ship was colored in Gimp and Tux is my daily. 🙂

yes a dancing pink elephant

Solarmass

craigtoyoracer yes a dancing pink elephant

I heard many ages ago there were programs that show dancing 💃 on your Windows desktop 🤣

brent

craigtoyoracer Wanted: dancing elephant .svg 😀

brent

Marxi

That was easy! I thought it would be complicated. I love it.
BUT the Really Bizarre Thing?
The Screenshot App SEES a gray box.....I do not, it blends into my black just fine.

Marxi

YuriTheHenrique Vector art is like using the selection tool to create shapes~ In my case what made the experience a bit harder to adapt wasn't the tools, but the shortcuts I'm used to being so different between something like Krita/PS and Inkscape/AI (And even between these two there's almost no matching shortcut) 😅

Off-topic: I honestly can't enjoy using GIMP, it's been more than a decade since I last tried it because it felt so confusing to me...

YuriTheHenrique

Marxi Gimp has changed quite a lot, much more stable and easy to use now.
But still, photoshop is quicker/efficient.

About vectors, all I know is arithmetic vectors... I'm more like Pixel perfect and that old things.

Marxi

YuriTheHenrique I just miiiiiight give Gimp another chance sometime then hahaha

Solarmass Try either increasing or reducing the panel size, I noticed it only adjusts icon size at a few points. Also, without the circle it looks really fine!

Solarmass

What have you all done to me!? 😅

upd:

(it should be smaller though)

brent

Solarmass What have you all done to me!? 😅

Exactly! Trying your teal one next.

craigtoyoracer

brent you can right click and save, then use as menu or open with gimp>file>export as .svg >save

brent

Solarmass ahh without circle is nice, too.
craigtoyoracer thank you for that

Solarmass

🐦️

Solarmass

brent ahh without circle is nice, too.

yup!
But I have already switched to the dots 😆