Awesome Replacement Icons For Wallbox Facebook Applet

By , Published January 29, 2010

A few days back (err or was it yesterday? I lose track.) we showed you an awesome Facebook applet for your GNOME panel called ‘Wallbox’. One of my criticisms of said application was that its icons were a bit on the… “lulwhat?” side. Mental refresh of those in 2, 1: -

New Icons
OMG! reader Marc has made some replacement icons that are more in keeping with the Facebook-ness of the application. They do lack number badges, but they look awesome!

The icon changes from the Humanity-esque monochrome outline to a full blue ‘facebook’ icon when new messages/updates are recieved, so you’ll always know if there’s something new going down.


Download Replacement Wallbox Icons
Whack the link below to download a .zip file containing the icons.

Install
To install the icons, first unpack the .zip file. Then hit ALT+F2 and paste/copy the following: -

  • gksu nautilus /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/wallbox/data

Now move the unzipped ‘image’ folder across to the newly spawned wallbox/data window and confirm that you wish to ‘replace all’. Restart Wallbox and et voila!

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • http://omgubuntu.disqus.com/skype_21_beta_2_for_linux_released/trackback/ John

    Facebook don’t like/permit third party applications to use their icons/logos so this could get you into hot water?

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      There are hundreds of icon packs on deviant art, social network sharing ‘widgets’ etc that use a facebook icon. Even Gwibber uses a facebook icon, so i’m not entirely sure they’d mind to much.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      There are hundreds of icon packs on deviant art, social network sharing ‘widgets’ etc that use a facebook icon. Even Gwibber uses a facebook icon, so i’m not entirely sure they’d mind to much.

      • http://omgubuntu.disqus.com/skype_21_beta_2_for_linux_released/trackback/ John

        OK no worries, I just recalled someone developing a 3rd party iPhone app getting into a spot of bother.

      • http://omgubuntu.disqus.com/skype_21_beta_2_for_linux_released/trackback/ John

        OK no worries, I just recalled someone developing a 3rd party iPhone app getting into a spot of bother.

  • Anonymous

    Marc you’re a genius! I love the new icon!

  • http://yurenju.blogspot.com/ yurenju

    Honki propose a new icon set.
    we will change icon on wallbox 0.4.

    http://wallbox-fb.blogspot.com/2010/02/are-you-tired-wallbox-icon.html

  • http://twitter.com/CapnGoat Cap’n Goat

    could you reup these icons? the current green ones in 0.4 aren’t better than the 0.3 at all.

    thanks. (someone teach that dev a lesson in design…)