Welcome App's dependency on eos-qogir-icons makes it unusable with other Qogir icon styles

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Hello together,

I hope this is the right place in the forum for this topic. If not, please direct me to it.

My issue is that I want to use the Ubuntu style of Qogir icons which are not part of eos-qogir-icons. But to install qogir-icon-theme from the AUR which contains the Ubuntu style I have to deinstall the EOS Welcome App to also deinstall eos-qogir-icons because of its dependency and I also can’t reinstall the Welcome App with qogir-icon-theme installed becasue of the same dependency. Is there a way to make qogir-icon-theme an alternative dependency for the Welcome App besides eos-qogir-icons or to ad the Ubuntu and Manjaro styles of Qogir to eos-qogir-icons? Because now one has to choose to use either qogir-icon-theme or the Welcome App.

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It is possible to add Ubuntu style icons by slightly modifying the PKGBUILD file
of eos-qogir-icons.
Note that each added icon style increases the size of the package.

PKGBUILD and the other needed files are here:
https://github.com/endeavouros-team/PKGBUILDS/tree/master/eos-qogir-icons

One way to do it is

  • Copy the four files from the link to your machine into a temporary folder. If you use a browser for copying, select the raw copy mode. Note that all quotes and special characters must be preserved during the transfer!
  • Edit PKGBUILD on your system according to instructions below.
  • Run makepkg -cf.
  • If build succeeds, run:
sudo pacman -U eos-qogir-icons-2025.02.15-3-any.pkg.tar.zst

and you should be good to go! :wink:

Editing PKGBUILD

Comment out line that starts with

patch -u "install.sh" ...

by adding a # character as first on that line. Then add line

sed -i ${srcdir}/Qogir-icon-theme/install.sh -e "s| '-Manjaro' | |"

right after the commented patch line. This effectively removes the Manjaro icons, others will stay.

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Thx! This does the job well. :grin:

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