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An icon theme is a set of icons which can be used for the menu items. Kando comes with a few icon themes pre-installed and you can easily add your own.

Built-in Icon Themes

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Kando comes with a few icon themes pre-installed. You can select them in the icon picker in the menu editor.

  1. Simple Icons (Plain & Colored)
    • Simple Icons is a set of icons for popular brands.
  2. Material Symbols Rounded
    • Material Symbols Rounded is a icons set for common actions and objects.
  3. Emojis

Creating an Icon Theme

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Kando comes with a few icon themes pre-installed. To add your own icons to Kando, follow these steps:

  1. Create a new icon-themes directory in Kando’s configuration directory if it does not yet exist. Depending on your OS, this will be the following locations:

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    %appdata%\kando\icon-themes

  2. Create another directory for your icon theme inside the icon-themes directory. You can give it any name you like.

  3. Add your icons to the new directory. The icons can be in various formats, but we recommend using SVG files.

  4. Restart Kando. Icon themes are only loaded when Kando starts.

  5. Select your icon theme in the icon-theme dropdown in the icon picker in Kando’s menu editor.

Suggestions for Icon Sets

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There are many great icon sets available on the internet. Here are some which you could try:

  • Numix Circle: Just use the files from the Numix-Circle/48/apps directory.
  • Papirus: Here you could use the content from the Papirus/64x64 directory.
  • Tela: Here you find the icons in the src/scalable directory.
  • Pixelitos: Here you find the icons in the 16 directory.