is there somewhere I can find icons or icon sets which will show up in the front panel? I'm creating actions to launch e.g. Chrome and there's no icons suitable for a web browser in the bundled sets.
Thanks
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I don't know of a specific source for icons, but they are xpm or xbm at 16x16, 32x32 and 48x48. You should be able to convert or scale icons from other sources to use.
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well, thank you, but I've already tried that. They won't show in the panel or panel sub-menus because they have too many colors. Panel icons can only use a palette of I think 8 specific colors and a few shades of gray. I guess I'll just live w/o icons since I don't want to spend the time hand editing all of them.
edited: well don't I feel stupid. Apparently after a logout the icon will show up in the panel. I guess I jumped to the conclusion that if it didn't show up when I dragged it in there it wouldn't show up at all. Something I read elsewhere (can't find it now, of course) said they had to be those specific 8 colors for them to show up.
So, thank you very much for your help and I'll leave my mistake up there for all to see :)
Last edit: jz78817 2012-11-21
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Hm. I now working on 64 bit ubuntu. Everything works fine. May be later i make 16 color icons. Now all icons are fast hand convertion from 32bit to 256 colors.
Now i'm trying make OpenOffice dtintegration from old star office installation.
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To use it, download, unzip and chmod a+x the resulting .sh file.
Run icon4cde.sh /source/image/file.jpg and it will drop the icon into ~/.dt/icons so that you can use the resulting icon set with Create Action.
Hope this is helpful!
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I recently got back into CDE and have been digging through my stuff looking for this, I added to Github so it will be in a more permanent location. https://github.com/hbonath/icon4cde
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is there somewhere I can find icons or icon sets which will show up in the front panel? I'm creating actions to launch e.g. Chrome and there's no icons suitable for a web browser in the bundled sets.
Thanks
I don't know of a specific source for icons, but they are xpm or xbm at 16x16, 32x32 and 48x48. You should be able to convert or scale icons from other sources to use.
There is easy way to build own. Google + GIMP :D, or i can share some icons generated for CDE.
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4uNvutSHh1SeW5DRGpDcWRQLVk
extract files to ~/.dt/icons
Last edit: Dainius Daujotas 2012-11-09
well, thank you, but I've already tried that. They won't show in the panel or panel sub-menus because they have too many colors. Panel icons can only use a palette of I think 8 specific colors and a few shades of gray. I guess I'll just live w/o icons since I don't want to spend the time hand editing all of them.
edited: well don't I feel stupid. Apparently after a logout the icon will show up in the panel. I guess I jumped to the conclusion that if it didn't show up when I dragged it in there it wouldn't show up at all. Something I read elsewhere (can't find it now, of course) said they had to be those specific 8 colors for them to show up.
So, thank you very much for your help and I'll leave my mistake up there for all to see :)
Last edit: jz78817 2012-11-21
I have to correct myself again. it seems they don't show up if I build and run CDE on 64-bit Ubuntu. On 32-bit everything works fine.
thank you again for your icons and help.
Hm. I now working on 64 bit ubuntu. Everything works fine. May be later i make 16 color icons. Now all icons are fast hand convertion from 32bit to 256 colors.
Now i'm trying make OpenOffice dtintegration from old star office installation.
I created a quick shell script that uses imagemagick to create the required pixmap icons formatted for CDE out of any image file.
http://www.mooncheese.org/projects/icon4cde/icon4cde.sh.gz
To use it, download, unzip and chmod a+x the resulting .sh file.
Run icon4cde.sh /source/image/file.jpg and it will drop the icon into ~/.dt/icons so that you can use the resulting icon set with Create Action.
Hope this is helpful!
Henry,
you are a king among men. Thank you for this.
Do you have a new link for it?
Yes it would be nice to have a script to batch convert. If anyone is still on it i'd appreciate it.
I recently got back into CDE and have been digging through my stuff looking for this, I added to Github so it will be in a more permanent location.
https://github.com/hbonath/icon4cde