Install Faenza Icons 1.2 in Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/11.10/Mint

Install Faenza Icons 1.2 in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric/Ubuntu 11.04/10.10/10.04/Linux Mint (New Release)

This icon theme for Gnome provides monochromatic icons for panels, toolbars and buttons and colourful squared icons for devices, applications, folder, files and Gnome menu items.
An installation script let you choose the logo of your favorite distribution and the appearance of the main menu icon (Gnome/distrib, monochrome/colour). Several themes are included to fit with light or dark panels, menus and tool-bars.

Faenza Ver 1.2:

• New apps: Desura, Gajim, Google Music Frame, Mail notification
• New icons sizes: 64x64 and 96x96
• Fixes the specific folders icons replaced by the standard one
• Fixes some missing links

You can use Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change icons.

To install Faenza icons in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install faenza-icon-theme

That's it

Source: Faenza Icons