Re: Icons (again)

[Alasdair Muckart <silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Bo Thorsen wrote:

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> I would really like a choice of icons. I would love to have icons in
> graphical quality of afterstep or enlightenment. I would like to have
> buttons equally beautiful.

I'm currently working on this for my own machine. I rather like the
buttons on MacOS so I'm going to grab a MacOS screenshot, cut out the
buttons and convert them to pixmaps to use in my own titlebars.

> I know I should just start myself, but unfortunately I have absolutely no
> drawing skills, which makes it pretty easy for me to write this request :|
> Please consider this, 'cause we're falling behind Gnome on this particular
> point.

I'm currently using only two icons from the kde set (not counting the
filetype icons which I haven't really looked for yet) on my kde setup. All
of the application icons and the toolbar icons are snarfed from various
sources (I have 5-6 megs of xpm files floating around on my machine). If
you want icons start at the Icon Store page
<http://nether.tky.hut.fi/iconstore/> and the Window managers for X page
<http://www.plig.org/xwinman/> and follow some of the links from there. 

If you look around a bit you can find all of the xpms that kde uses in
it's titlebars etc and change them. I'm not sure how to have them change
with the colors you select yet but if nobody else does I'll post how to on
here. 

I actually rather like he default icons, they are clear and easy to
understand which I think is the most important property they should have
given that kde is supposed to be non-confusing for new users. They just
didn't fit in with the kind of decor I was used to.


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