Replacing Low-Resolution Sound Level Indicator Icons in Trisquel 5.5

I'm running Trisquel 5.5 (Brigantia) for a little more than a week now and everything works just great. One thing that bothered me, though, was that the icons that show up when I press the volume up, volume down or mute key, look very ugly. (I know that this in no Trisquel specific problem.) Here is how I got around it.

As far as I could see, the problem is that the icons in /usr/share/icons/trisquel/scalable/status are – other than the path suggests – not scalable but very small PNG files. Replacing them with SVG files would make the system no longer recognize them. You could simply delete them and fall back to GNOME 3's default icons. (Which don't fit the Trisquel look very well.) Attached is a short makefile that will download bigger icons from the Tango! Icon Project and install them. The icons are downloaded from Wikimedia Commons and are in the public domain. You can run the makefile via

$ make
$ sudo make install

A final

$ make clean

will delete the auxiliary files in the current working directory again. (The makefile itself can now be deleted safely, too.) You will need GNU Make which can be installed from the build-essential package via

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential

I hope this will help somebody enjoying Trisquel even more.

PS For some obscure “security reasons”, I had to give the makefile the .txt file name extension. Please rename it to GNUmakefile again after downloading or use Make's -f option.