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

    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.

        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.

            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...

                    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...

                        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.

                            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!

                                  Marxi Try either increasing or reducing the panel size, I noticed it only adjusts icon size at a few points.

                                  or export image file with a bigger transparent border area

                                  Also, without the circle it looks really fine!

                                  actually the circle is still there, it is just black. I was a little bit lazy 😆

                                    5 months later

                                    Andril not sure (I am not an Inkscape pro user). Just save the image from the 1st post and open it in Inkscape. It should be transparent 😉

                                      2 years later

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

                                        2 months later

                                        I like to the panel with WhiteSur theme:

                                        Top panel with this applets: