Can I Change/Override a specific icon from theme in home?

[Redsandro]

This is an annoyance, especially when your monitor is color corrected for dark gamma for graphic purposes:

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All common icons are white by default, but somehow Pidgin Messenger and Tomboy Notes are black, and on my monitor really hard to distinguish.

I have tried some other icon themes, and in some themes they have a normal (colored) appearance, and in others they are white, like the rest is now. Both are fine. I prefer the colored ones though, like dropbox.

However, all of these themes change a lot more icons (duh) and in my opinion this is not an improvement. I like the icons the way they are, except for these two.

Is there a way I can configure the appearance of these icons, and possibly others, within ~ my personal home?
Because I like them to be whatever I want, independent from the chosen icon theme, and without affecting other users.

[Redsandro]

I think other themes do this too. A lof themes only change basic icons, and the rest are the same.

It feels like:
[default icons] -> [subsection overriden by icon theme]

I am looking for:
[default icons] -> [subsection overriden by icon theme] -> [subsection overriden by user]

I can override those weird camouflage black-on-black icons with the originals that are also installed, e.g.:
/usr/share/pixmaps/tomboy-32.xpm

Any thoughts?

[Redsandro]

Here is some interesting information under "Use another icon set while keeping the Ubuntu Mono panel icons":
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Icons

• Go to /usr/share/icons
• Make a copy of your theme, e.g. Mint-X in ~/.icons/
• Rename the folder to a new name.
• Open index.theme
• Change the "Name" field to a new name, e.g. Based-on-Mint-X
• Change "Inherits" field to the name of the icon theme you want to use ‘Inherits=Mint-X’ to the name of the folder of the icons you want to use. (This folder may be in ~/.icons or in /usr/share/icons)
• Save the file and go to appearance preferences to set the new icon theme.

But Both Mint-X and gnome themes have the normal yellow colored icons. I don't understand where the black ones are coming from and how I actually override two or three icons only without using 100 dirs.