The Gnome icon theme is not exactly a great one or at least I for one never found it to be polished enough to use, but the latest version available via GIT is definitely an improvement. This will probably be the icon theme which will ship with Gnome 3.
To download and install the latest Gnome Icon Theme, simply paste this in a terminal:
Then set the new icon theme via Appearance Preferences.
[via lathund.nu]
To download and install the latest Gnome Icon Theme, simply paste this in a terminal:
sudo apt-get install git-core #in case you don't have git installed
git clone git://git.gnome.org/gnome-icon-theme
mv gnome-icon-theme/gnome ~/.icons
Then set the new icon theme via Appearance Preferences.
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