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jaapz

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Posted: April 11 2008,22:09

Quote (lucky13 @ April 10 2008,16:59)

Nope. The problem you'll have with this is conforming to a standard icon naming convention between DSL, jwm, and whatever icon sets are chosen. If DSL were to use an icon naming convention adopted by (e.g.) KDE or Gnome (Free Desktop) it might be easier. But with things as they are right now, your script won't do diddly squat unless users change their icon names to match what's already in jwmrc/dfm.

of course the icon set used with this iconthemeswitcher should be made ready for DSL, so the theme will contain all icons with the same name as the default ones.

But, if nobody got interest in this, i wont make this script bigger anyway. Good learning again though xD

roberts

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Posted: April 12 2008,03:19

jaapz wrote:

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... Good learning again though xD

Glad to see you are learning and writing murgaLua. Not much interest in the icon area, is likely due to lack of many small .xpm icons that DSL uses.

I know that I have asked for some .xpm icons to be contributed and so far, I have received very few.

mikshaw even wrote a really cool icon editor. I would stiil like someone who is artisic to do a database xpm icon.

jaapz

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Posted: April 12 2008,21:37

roberts, why not post a list of xpm's that have to be made? i'll be glad to make some!

and hows the list of murgaLua gui's that have to be made? also would like to do some of that

but that icon editor, is it iconview.lua? if it is, its not an editor, but it is cool anyway xD

mikshaw

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Posted: April 13 2008,00:16

You're right, it isn't an editor. But it does launch mtpaint with the selected icon, which is an excellent xpm icon editor. In that sense it is sort of tied into icon editing.

I'm interested in knowing what a "database icon" would be linked to. If it's an icon for the mydsl database, that would be more of a mydsl icon and not too difficult to create, but if it's something more general for applications that use a database, it would be more difficult in my opinion.

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roberts

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Posted: April 13 2008,03:05

Most of the xpm icons are very small - around 1500 or so.
So just doing a ls -Sr /usr/share/dfm/icons will show the fat icons. These could be reduced to save space and probably look nicer too. So here is a list that needs to be reduced or replaced:

Size Name
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2413 console4.xpm
2578 wireless.xpm
2596 file.xpm
2606 edit.xpm
2805 home.xpm
3687 files-yellow.xpm
3909 files-red.xpm
4310 exit.xpm
4581 nicq.xpm
4801 naim.xpm
4806 calc.xpm
4842 daemons.xpm
5066 document_spreadsheet.xpm
5250 spreadsheet.xpm
5525 xvesa.xpm
5720 sshfs.xpm
5906 package3.xpm
6028 msword.xpm
6088 fetch.xpm
6139 calendar.xpm
6388 nirq.xpm
6392 USB-Drive.xpm
6394 smbclient.xpm
6497 files-blue.xpm
6658 files-green.xpm
6673 xpdf.xpm
7917 pdf.xpm
7926 vnc.xpm
7928 dillo.xpm
7942 files-yellow-exec.xpm

Re: The database icon would be generic for sqlite databases.
I have seen "disk-pack" looking icons used or ?

Just note that the icon should look good at dfm 32x32 but also by jwm automatic size reduction used in jwm menu and jwm tray.

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