Anonymous
The most important part is to concentrate on the mime-icons part first, application-icons part second and at the very end to folder colors.
Exception is here only if you choose your icon set for Fluxbox which needs square icons.
The reason for the above statement is simple — most of the time user is dealing with different sorts of files (mime-type icons).
Applications are ‘hidden’ inside Start Menu and get rarely seen more then once per session.
Folders are pretty easy to adapt to the personal needs, if they are not available OOTB.
Some basic technical knowledge, good image manipulation program
and a lot of time are needed though.
Here the example:
1. All available Folder types of 1 size x 6 ~ 10 different sizes = Total number of folders to recolor
(some are duplicates and recoloring could be avoided with adding some –> sym-links)
2. ‘Play’ around and try to get one color you like / need
(when you found the color, make recoloring profile)
3. Change the colors by applying the profile
(works with non-plain folder icons too)