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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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Alternatives

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