Nuvola is a
free software
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icon set under the
GNU LGPL
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2.1 license, created by
David Vignoni.
Originally created for
desktop environment
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s like
KDE
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and
GNOME, it is also available in packages for
Windows
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and
Mac.
The final version, 1.0, contains almost 600 icons. The default set is in the
PNG graphics format; an
SVG version is also available.
The application icons, in particular, colourfully represent a wide variety of commonplace and easily recognised objects.
Uses
Besides
KDE
KDE is an international free software community that develops free and open-source software. As a central development hub, it provides tools and resources that allow collaborative work on this kind of software. Well-known products include the ...
and
GNOME, ''Nuvola'' is used by the
Pidgin instant messaging client, the
Amarok media player and the
KeePass
KeePass Password Safe is a free and open-source password manager primarily for Windows. It officially supports macOS and Linux operating systems through the use of Mono. Additionally, there are several unofficial ports for Windows Phone, Andro ...
password manager.
Nuvola is the default icon set on the OpenLab GNU/Linux distribution.
It is also used for many purposes on
Wikimedia Foundation
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projects.
Examples of icons
File:Nuvola apps evolution.png
File:Nuvola apps core.svg
File:Nuvola apps colors.png
File:Nuvola-fs-blockdev.svg
File:Nuvola devices usbpendrive mount.png
File:Nuvola devices cdrom mount.png
File:Nuvola devices print class.png
File:Nuvola apps artsbuilder.png
File:Nuvola apps package utilities.png
File:Nuvola apps kthememgr.png
File:Nuvola apps kservices.svg
File:Nuvola apps ark.png
File:Nuvola apps konquest.svg
File:Nuvola devices 3floppy mount.png
File:Nuvola apps kwin4.png
File:Nuvola apps package.svg
File:Nuvola apps kolf.svg
File:Screensaver.svg
File:Nuvola apps knotify.png
File:Nuvola devices pda.png
File:Gamepad.svg
See also
*
Bluecurve
Bluecurve is a desktop theme for GNOME and KDE created by the Red Hat Artwork project. The main aim of Bluecurve was to create a consistent look throughout the Linux environment, and provide support for various Freedesktop.org desktop standards. ...
– former default GPL icon set of
Fedora
*
Crystal
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– LGPL icon set by
Everaldo Coelho
Everaldo Coelho (; born March 25, 1978) is a Brazilian graphic designer and illustrator. He specializes in iconography, themes and user interface design. Everaldo's works include general illustrations, comics, children's books, corporate desig ...
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Icon (computing)
*
Openclipart
Openclipart, also called Open Clip Art Library, is an online media repository of free-content vector clip art. The project hosts over 160,000 free graphics and has billed itself as "the largest community of artists making the best free original ...
*
Oxygen Project
The Oxygen Project is a project created to give a visual refresh to KDE Plasma Workspaces.
It consists of a set of computer icons, a window decoration for KWin, widget toolkit themes for GTK and Qt, two themes for Plasma Workspaces, and a Tr ...
– LGPL icon set for
KDE
KDE is an international free software community that develops free and open-source software. As a central development hub, it provides tools and resources that allow collaborative work on this kind of software. Well-known products include the ...
*
Palette (computing)
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*
Tango Desktop Project
The Tango Desktop Project was an open-source initiative to create a set of design guidelines and to provide a consistent user experience for applications on desktop environments. The project created a set of icons known as the Tango Icon Libr ...
– developers of a
public domain
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icon set
*
Theme (computing)
In computing, a theme is a preset package containing graphical appearance and functionality details. A theme usually comprises a set of shapes and colors for the graphical control elements, the window decoration and the window. Themes are used t ...
References
External links
{{Wiktionary, nuvola
Nuvola Icon Theme version 1.0 the official package distribution which contains the original KDE 3 compatible version of Nuvola
Nuvola page on David Vignoni websiteOfficial source for original Nuvola packages and future development
gnome-themes-extras a package which contains a GNOME SVG version of Nuvola
Computer icons
Free software projects
Free system software
KDE
GNOME
