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It'd be nicer if the Skype icon was smaller and white. Here's how it looks right now:

skype icon

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This solution will work on elementary OS 0.3 (Freya) and 0.4 (Loki), Luna users should follow PNG's answer

To change the skype icon (and many other) you have to install the elementary+ icon theme.

This theme is a community maintained addition to elementary OS's default icon theme. It contains icons for several third party applications that resemble elementary OS's style.

Add this PPA (Personal Package Archive) to your sources:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cybre/elementaryplus
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install elementaryplus

After the elementary+ icon theme and the patched sni-qt got successfully installed, open elementary+ Configurator in your Slingshot (applications menu), select Skype and hit Apply.

Restart Skype and you should have a nice white Skype indicator icon

Update:

Testing in Loki: avoid activating the core icon theme (first entry in the program window), as it disables some icons (like Synaptic).

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  • I'm getting an error E: Unable to locate package elementaryplus :(
    – waldyrious
    Commented Jun 30, 2015 at 19:55
  • @waldyrious either you didn't add the repository or you forgot to run sudo apt-get update
    – Rafael
    Commented Jun 30, 2015 at 19:58
  • @Rafael I ran all the commands exactly as provided above: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cybre/elementaryplus, then sudo apt-get update, then sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get install elementaryplus
    – waldyrious
    Commented Jun 30, 2015 at 20:01
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    @waldyrious oh, according to your screenshot you are using elementary OS 0.2 Luna. elementary+ officially supports only Freya (elementary OS 0.3)
    – Rafael
    Commented Jun 30, 2015 at 20:05
  • Ah ok. Thanks for adding the clarification in the answer. I'll accept the answer anyway.
    – waldyrious
    Commented Jun 30, 2015 at 20:22
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Guide for Luna:

After installing Skype, add this PPA which provides a patched sni-qt, and install it:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rpeshkov/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sni-qt

Then download and install the skype-wrapper icon pack:

wget https://github.com/rpeshkov/skype-wrapper/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
(cd skype-wrapper-master/ && sudo ./install.sh elementary)
rm -rf skype-wrapper-master/

Restart Skype and enjoy ;)

Skype indicator

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    Thank you! I knew there was a luna compatible patched sni-qt, but I couldn't find it.
    – Rafael
    Commented Jul 1, 2015 at 10:16
  • Thanks! Is this an icon pack you developed? If so, I'd ask you to host them somewhere with a permanent url (e.g. github?) so we can use command-line tools like curl/wget to download & extract them.
    – waldyrious
    Commented Jul 1, 2015 at 18:10
  • @waldyrious these icons I found on GitHub. And thank you for correcting my answer, I speak very bad English.
    – png2378
    Commented Jul 1, 2015 at 19:14
  • No problem @PNG. Btw you can accept the edit yourself, in case you didn't know :)
    – waldyrious
    Commented Jul 1, 2015 at 19:37

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