hicolor-icon-theme
brew install hicolor-icon-theme
v0.18
GPL-2.0-only
Fallback icon theme library providing standard FreeDesktop.org icon hierarchy and naming conventions for desktop environments.
Why you might care
This is primarily a build/runtime dependency for GUI applications and icon theme implementations on Linux. It provides the base directory structure and naming specs that other icon themes inherit from, ensuring consistent icon lookup across desktop environments. Most GUI applications won't directly use this, but their icon theme dependencies will.
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Build dependencies
Links
- https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/icon-theme/
- Brew formula source: Formula/h/hicolor-icon-theme.rb
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