Icons; is this possible?

[sim085]

Hi,

I was wondering - is there a tool in Workbench 3.1 that allows you to change all the icons at one go rather then one by one? I would like to change the icons I have without loosing the ones I already have and to make the "change" from one set of icons to another as easy as possible - if possible

Regards,
Sim085

[mpiva]

I would like to change the icons I have without loosing the ones I already have

I'm confused.  Exactly which icons do you want to be able to change?  Are you talking about a one-time change or are you saying you'd like to be able to change your icon "theme" at a whim?

[jj]

i would say he would like to try glowicons or powericons or nnewicon sets with the ability to just revert to default.
 
Basically unless you copy them all to somewhere first and then write a cript to copy them to the correct places, I dont think there is a way

[sim085]

... theme at a whim I would like

Is there maybe an already existing script which I could copy and modify accordingly?

[jj]

themes in workbench would be good

[mpiva]

... theme at a whim I would like

I think the closest you'd get to that would be to use the def icons. It wouldn't be hard to create several different directories with themed def icons and then write a little script to run on startup that would let you pick which theme to copy to ENV:  The only problem is that you'd have to delete most/all of your real icons for this to work and set the drawers ti display all files and not just file that have icons.  The REALLY big negative to this is that you'd have very generic icons for everything and would have to go only by the filename to figure out what each file/drawer is. For example, there'd be no way to visually distinguish the "Prefs" drawer from the "Utilities" drawer or even the "Devs" drawer.  Personally, I don't think it would be worth it.