Fix Geany icon on the Faenza theme

The Faenza icon theme [1] [2] is a popular theme that is even the default on some distributions (e.g. Mint).

No matter how great it is, many people don't like the icon this theme gives to Geany: a blue arabic-style drawing with arabic letters reading "Geany" -- nothing similar to the gold magic lamp. The scripts and icons here are intended to help replacing this Faenza icon with a more Geany-looking one.

Installing the Faenza-looking icons

To install the Faenza-looking Geany icons, you can either manually copy the icons in the Faenza directory or use the build system. To use the build system, you need to setup it first:

$ ./autogen.sh

Then, you'll configure it to either install system-wide:

$ ./configure

or to install in your home directory:

$ ./configure --with-icons-dir="$HOME/.icons"

and finally perform the installation, with root privileges if necessary:

$ make install

This will overwrite existing Geany icons in the Faenza theme!

Using the original Geany icons

Alternatively, you can also revert to the original Geany icon. To do so, you can either remove the geany icons from the Faenza theme, or override them back with the originals (e.g. in case it is installed system-wide). The script faenza-use-geany-icon.sh helps to perform the latter.

This script links and renders the original Geany icon from the Geany installation folders in ~/.icons/Faenza so they are used in priority over any system-wide ones. If the Faenza theme is installed in ~/.icons, the files that would get overwritten will be renamed with a .bak suffix.

To use this script, you'll need to have Geany installed on your system and found either in the PKG_CONFIG_PATH or the PATH. You will also need either Inkscape or rsvg to render the SVG file at various sizes.

When you have all this, just run the script:

$ ./faenza-use-geany-icon.sh

Removing the Feanza Geany icons

If you prefer to remove the offending icons from the Faenza theme, you may use this command to rename the geany icons with a .bak suffix so they won't be used:

$ find ~/.icons/Faenza -name 'geany.*' -exec mv '{}' '{}.bak' ';'

This assumes the icons are installed in your home folder, but you can modify the command if they are installed system wide (though in this case the overrides solutions above maybe be better).