RE: [Fxruby-users] Icons: Are any standard? where?

[Jordan, T. <Tom...@ca...>]

You can always use sodipodi @ 
http://sodipodi.sf.net
like SVG Icons did (see: http://svgicons.sf.net )

hth,
-- Tom.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lyle Johnson [mailto:jl...@cf...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 6:27 PM
> To: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng
> Cc: fxr...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Fxruby-users] Icons: Are any standard? where?
> 
> 
> Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
> 
> > Is [calling them "stock" icons] perjorative?
> 
> Oh, no, and I didn't take it that way. I guess I thought you 
> were asking 
> something like, "Is there some set of standard icons that 
> everyone knows 
> that you're supposed to use in FOX icons?" -- and the answer to that 
> question is no, just use whatever looks good to you ;)
> 
> > I did see a few, but no evidence of a central place to keep 
> them, etc.
> 
> Exactly my point ;) You are free to use anything there, but 
> they aren't 
> "official" or anything.
> 
> > True, but I need [an icon-editing] program from a reputable 
> community, 
> > I bet Icon editors and similar are a good way to pickup spyware...  
> > The GNU imaging programs, OTOH, seem to go: get gtk+, which 
> requires 
> > libungif, which requires libpng, which requires zlib which 
> I can't get 
> > to build. [Harris, R: "The Court of King Caractacus"] :-)
> 
> OK, that's a good point. What Linux distro are you using that doesn't 
> come with the GIMP pre-installed, though? Or at least available as a 
> installable package? Note that I'm not "pushing" the GIMP on 
> you, but it 
> would surely do the trick (in a sledgehammer sort of fashion ;)
> 
> On Windows, I think I used to use one called Michelangelo (sp?) but I 
> couldn't tell you if it's still around, if it was shareware versus 
> freeware, etc.
> 
> > Tried that [looking for free icons], but I've found it difficult
>  > to search the licencing aspects as well as the image with 
> Google.  > Maybe a better engine exists for this pupose?
> 
> Sorry, don't know if such an engine exists.
> 
> 
> 
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