UbuntuOne Icons to Match Karmic Panel Icons

By , Published October 11, 2009


The current default UbuntuOne icon in Karmic Koala is a bright, colourful and cheery icon which is great – expect it doesn’t match the rest of the default panel icons.



This is actually a design choice by the Ubuntu Design team, however if you have Ubuntu One open all the time you may wish to have the icon “match” the rest of the panel icons. Thanks to domore over at gnome-look.org, you can!


Install The New Icons

  1. Download the replacement icons @ gnome-look.org
  2. Extract the folder
  3. Terminal: gksudo /usr/share/ubuntuone-client/icons/
  4. Place the new icons into the ‘status’ folder of the corresponding icon folders (24×24 into 24×24, etc)
  5. Start UbuntuOne and marvel at your grey panel-matching icons!

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Want your CPUFREQ applet to match the Karmic Panel Icons too? Check out my post @ http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/10/cpufreq-icons-humanity.html

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • opoopo

    dont forget the wether-icons in the panel. they dont fit at all. i hope canonical will change that.

  • Mohan

    That is cool…I am going to do that.

  • http://seifsallam.co.cc/ Seif Sallam

    why didn’t you make a blueprint and proposal in ubuntu brainstorm, and made people rate it. its not too late for small change in Karmic, and may they would add it by default.

  • Elie Charest

    Unfortunately, it doesn’t change the “Connected” icon, just the disconnected one. I’ve tried to find which icon to change to have a grayscale connected icon, to no avail…perhaps others will have more luck!

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Oh thanks for that. UbuntuOne doesn’t work for me (for some reason) so i didn’t notice this. I’ll have a gander and find out which icon needs to be replaced.

      If you find out before me, let us know!

      • Elie Charest

        Okay, I figured it out: you have to copy the ubuntone-client.png icons in the appropriate size folders for apps in /usr/share/icons/hicolor. For example, copy the 24×24 ubuntuone-client.png icon in the /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24×24/apps directory.

        I had tried this repeatedly and it didn’t work, until I realized I needed to issue the following command in order to update the icon cache:

        $ sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor

        Restarting UbuntuOne after that displayed the correct greyscale icon once connected.

        • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

          Doh!! I went on a mammoth “replace every ubuntu-one icon” spree yesterday and gave up after it still wouldn’t change… now i see why!

          Thanks for the tip, i’ll add it in!

  • Hou

    How did you get the date above the time in gnome-panel??