Icon help
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So im trying to use the icons with themes but no matter what theme I download none of the icons are working. What am I doing wrong?
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@jnicholson14 Welcome in our Vivaldi Community
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@jnicholson14 said in Icon help:
no matter what theme I download none of the icons are working. What am I doing wrong?
Do you want to change the icons? Or what is wrong? Any screenshot you can upload here?
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@DoctorG so for example, the theme knobs has custom buttons for the theme. However when I activate the theme the buttons dont change. I try the drag and drop but that does not work either.
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@jnicholson14 Which Vivaldi version?
What means "the buttons do not change"?
Do you want to install theme and move buttons on the UI?
Do you want to add own buttons? -
5.7.2921.63 x64 version. Yes install theme and moved the themed buttons onto ui. When I drag them to the ui nothing changes.
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@jnicholson14 You want to edit the theme's buttons and add you own? That works only in 5.8.2955.3 Snapshot.
If you want to move the existing toolbar buttons to an other place, hover the toolbar you want to drag a icon from, context menu "Edit → Customise Toolbar", the toolbar editor opens, now you can drag the icon from the UI toolbar to a different toolbar.
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I know how to do that part. But in reference to the current UI the forward and back buttons are just arrows. But in the theme they actually look like buttons. How do I take the buttons from the theme and apply them to UI?
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@jnicholson14 You want to add the icons to an other existing theme?
- Download the Knobs theme by opening context menu on Green Download button and select Save Link as...
- Extract the Zip file
- Now you see PNG files
- Open Settings → Themes
- Select your own theme
- Hit "Editor" button to get the Themes editor
- In Editor you can hit "Icons" button
- In section Current Theme icons select the one wou need to change
- In right pane click on a icon and you can select your user-defined PNG file or drag&drop from folder onto pane of showd icon (woerks for me)
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@jnicholson14 Hi, themes with custom buttons will only work if the option is enabled in
vivaldi://experiments/
If not, buttons will not show and the Icons section in the Theme Editor will not show.
Custom Icons are an experiment and under active development. I suggest you install the latest Vivaldi Snapshot as a Standalone install and play around with it there. As a feature under development, lots of bugs are bound to happen. I do not recommend you try to make this work in 5.7 unless you are brave and know what you're doing.
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how do I get the latest snapshot, I dont seem to see it on the website. Or a link to download however. Im sorry very new to vivaldi
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nevermind found it
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@jnicholson14 You can get Snapshots here:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/category/83/desktop-snapshotsThey are updated more often than Stable, and will have bugs, sometimes serious ones.
Do NOT install a Snapshot over your current Stable install. Install it as a Standalone in a separate location and you can experiment with themes.
https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/install-update/standalone-version-of-vivaldi/If this seems complicated, I suggest sticking with Stable until 5.8 is released with well-tested custom icons working properly without the need for using experimental settings.
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Okay got it installed and is now working. Thank you all, very helpful and seems like a great community here
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@jnicholson14 Enjoy browsing with the knobs you like to have in your theme