As for the icons I have to pass for the moment as I don't use i3wm and don't want to lead on a false look therefore. But perhaps I find time later to look over it also. Nevertheless I will also ask rachad and Emulatorman as I know both are using i3wm.

For the image:

You can use the img-tag around!

Thanks for the modules mentioned, but some seems right over the top. Besides that we cannot provide directly any kind of user, just recommendations. So it would be possible to adjust parts of Lumina (as default environment) and add that kind of meta-package with further instructions through so-called ".install"-files.

So the compromise would be most that in combination. Also about icon-themes: Most of them contains non-free parts for example services like "Steam", "Spotify" and more. We do what we can, but we won't include for sure non-free data or recommendations for non-free services.

Again: It is not possible for us to include predefined icon-sets when they include symbols for non-free services. Also we don't provide pre-defined setups for the users and won't do that also. A meta-package is okay, but only for the packages itself and the dependencies being installed. The rest will be to include as notes when installed. Sorry, but when users await this is the wrong system. There will be always something to be done by hand. Personal I recommend not to compare, more to inspire from something and do then own parts. I hope that is okay and part to understand!

We don't care what others do most the time, because Hyperbola stands on its own and is not any kind of copy. When you look at many icon-sets (yes, we have done that also) those include non-free parts for services as mentioned. And we don't have the time to patch every icon-set being added. When the creators and maintainers from upstream think to add icons and symbols for non-free applications and services those are just not for us and are not included.

Some window-managers like icewm got special themes also being modified exactly for Hyperbola, including an own icon. But here again: This will take its time to be working. There is also the problem that we don't know what users are doing when installing a meta-package. I don't recommend doing some kind over-the-top-scripting, which is getting very fast very ugly and quircky. The users should know what they are doing, when they add groups for example. Yes, explanations and recommendations are not the point. But doing that within a package don't fits into the thought about technical emancipation. We won't add also the qt-styleplugins as it is not possible to bring them over with any Debian-patchset for now and need more work. In the end it would be only possible to do that meta-package with the full help of the community. Without that I'd say we don't start as this package will never fit into the taste and will create further discussions.

Yes, but you need to insert the URL between the img-tag. I can only give this example:

[img]URL[/img]

I understand. At least, the community could create a meta-package for a skeleton libre-desktop would install a base with the panel, a file manager, and openbox, and not much more, being the rest suggested packages, such as the wireless tray icon, the automounting monitor, the theme manager (lxappearance) and, maybe, and just maybe, a meta theme for gtk and icons with Hyperbola branding. Reusing the existing Trisquel icons would be the easiest way.

I know hyperbola it's "do it yourself' for everything, but if Lumina gets maintained in the repos, that's because a cohesive DE it's demanded, and my approach it's almost an LXDE fork minus the session manager (and bloats like network-manager), doing dhcpcd the same roles.

A lot of bigger and actual forking tasks have been done for hyperbola, such as hypervideo.

BTW, I could hack a simple Hyperbola theme for Slim in seconds with ImageMagick. I know it's not needed for a desktop, but it adds branding for the project with very little.

I am not endorsing a single "official" DE for hyperbola with Slim as a DM, or being my project 'the' DE, but a setup that could be done as an example of modularisation for this, as in: install a, b, c, sightly tweak x, y, z, now you have an easy and *understandable* desktop.

https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id … enviroment

Heh, don't make fun on me, but I was about to write "GraphicsMagick". Muscle memory, maybe. And I've been using "gm convert" for years, as it was faster.

Not intended to make any fun, sorry for that. But yeah, for sure nice as proposal. No problem therefore to modify slim also with a original Hyperbola-theme.

EDIT: It seems those are not really icons but symbols coming from some kind of font being used. Which kind of font is unknown for me. But when this is shown directly within the configuration there are no real icons.

You're right, they're symbols. If we are talking about the usual setting of i3-gaps in another distro (this is an example), then after installing ttf-font-awesome these symbols will be on the panel after the system is rebooted, this does not happen in Hyperbola. Visually, the characters looked better and more pleasing.

Thank you very much for your help, I will check and come back with an answer.

BTW, on desktop environments, I am looking up for an alternative to type up in CJK languajes (Chinese/japanese/Korean) without depending on DBUS. uim+Anthy and some PKGBUIlDs for Parabola (being properly adapted for Hyperbola) would the trick, the rest requieres ibus and thus DBUS.

Debian has it, too, so the existing patches can be integrated.

https://packages.debian.org/sid/uim

Being able to type in non-Latin languages it's a must for any libre user.

So, uim, anthy, uim-gtk2/3, uim-qt5 and uim-anthy make up the minimal set (among environment variables) to type in Japanese, similarly uim-skk does the same for all the CJK language spectrum.

You may inform also here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_console#Fonts

Anthk thanks for your answer. At this stage, I would like to understand why my symbols are not displayed on the panel and what font should be installed.