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[Pelo]

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Nilson, the link is dead ?

[Pelo]

New with Pupjibaro : shutdown gui !
nice Idea, this way of leaving our Puppy Jibaro click here !

[nilsonmorales]

Pelo wrote

[battleshooter]

Numix



Download Numix Puppy icon theme set here

[Cirrael]

Well, I've made some icons for the wizardwizard program. Just tried to enhance the look and feel. If you like it, you can download the install script. Cheers!

[zigbert]

Cirrael
Great to see you are using svg in your coding !

Just for spreading some thoughts...
The more recent Puppies use the wizard-wizard from the Woof-CE source
We are also building a new stack with svg icons found in /usr/share/pixmaps/puppy/. At this moment is contains 264 icons.
To minimize the icon-size, the svg-code is NOT grabbed from inkscape, but built manually. An inkscape file is typically 10 times bigger than a manually built file.

Here is the internet-connect.svg found in Woof-CE.

[Volhout]

I have no idea how to apply the "glossy" shine to them, but these where hand crafted in mtpaint.

[technosaurus]

If anyone is interested in a better way to edit svg paths manually (with instant feedback), I wrote a very basic svg path editor app here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=836250#836250

Why hand edit svg paths?
* hand editing gives you better control to optimize
* complex shapes can be represented in compact expressions
* Path is universally supported ... even in libsvgtiny
* a single path can can display multiple complex shapes
* the data compresses extremely well
* most paths are < 50 bytes
* it is simple to generate an entire themed icon set
* once you get the hang of it, its easier than inkscape/mtpaint

Example: My hand optimized path for a rain drop is "4 1L3 4A1.2 2 0 1 0 5 4"

For more detailed info on svg paths, see my link above... but here is my summary sheet

[Mike Walsh]

I think I must have a rather unorthodox approach to icons. I've never used themed sets of icons, like most people seem to. On the other hand, I don't actually make my own, either.....despite being into graphic design (in a big way!)

For years, now, if I've wanted a new icon for anything, I Google for 'png icons & logos for .....xxxxx (whatever)'. I learnt some years ago that if you wanted to change icons'n'stuff in M$, it HAD to be .png files; nothing else would work. Mind you, it was an absolute PITA setting them up in Windows! I find Linux in general to be rather more forgiving...

It means I've built up quite a collection of PNG files, and I can usually find something suitable....unless I want something specific, and then it's back to Google... The nice thing about Puppy is that you don't have to manually resize them before they can be used; the system automatically resizes them to 48x48, no matter how big they are. I find that the larger and more detailed they are, the sharper they appear when applied to the desktop.

I've enclosed a screenie of my Slacko 570 desktop to illustrate the point. My icons are perhaps a bit of a mish-mash....but I like them! The two at lower right, below the luvcview icon are home-brewed; made up in an app called PhotoScape, v 3.7, running in Wine (ver 1.7.28, where it runs perfectly...has the Platinum rating, which I personally reviewed & submitted to the WineHQ Database). I've been using the thing ever since ver. 1, back in ,oh....2007, I think. They're just quick-launchers for 'autostart' and 'share search', used with rcrsn51's Samba-TNG .pet.

(And it's me that has to look at them every day..!)

Regards,

Mike.

[8Geee]

Old fashioned icons for drive indicators (usr/local/lib/x11/pixmaps in slacko-5.7). Very simply done, based on a traffic-light scheme. On the next update of slacko5.7-2015 and slack57-2015fd the file 'traffic txz' will be in root/my_applications.

[8Geee]

For those curious, the traffic-light icons as drive-indicators are available here.

Scroll down to 'other files'. Small file, only 7.5Kb with a Read1st instructions file.

[solo]

Made an alternative network-tray iconset if someone's interested. Zip file and instructions can be found here:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=100917&start=24

[solo]

Here's two small png images you can use as an alternative to the retrovol sound icons used in the taskbar.

They are simply called working.png and notworking.png, and they are supposed to be copied to this folder:

/usr/share/retrovol/images/

[solo]

Here's an updated version of the tray icons for Retrovol.

Normally, that is, in my distribution anyway, which Precise 5.7.1, you can see a couple of symlinks in the /usr/share/retrovol/images/ folder, which link to either the working.png, or the notworking.png icons in the same folder.

Those can be replaced by actual icons, so that the icon itself can show the approximated volume level. Very rudimentary though, it distinguishes between low, medium, high, or muted.

So I decided to make the icons for those.

Of course, if you want to use them, you'll have to copy them to the /usr/share/retrovol/images/ folder.

[nilsonmorales]

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