Oracle Solaris 11.4 Missing GNOME Icons:

With Oracle Solaris 11.4 (2021 release, maybe 2018 release as well) Some of the icons where not installed and where removed when upgrading to the 2021 version of Oracle Solaris 11.4.

You can reinstall the icons packs by:

  1. Copying the needed icons from another UNIX distro or a Linux distro and overwriting the contents in /usr/share/icons.
  2. Editing each desktop file in /usr/share/applications to match the GNOME icon in /usr/share/icons/gnome/256x256/apps/
  3. Use the main english icon line (and any language you want to fix [optional]) to the fill path plus extension. Must be .png (.svg does not work in Solaris).
  4. If successful each icon should update in a few seconds.
To speed things up, make the applications folder editable by GUI by:
sudo chomd -R 777 /usr/share/applications.

Also add applications and icons folders to your faves in GNOME file manager.

Date: July 14th 2024.

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