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

[Hugh S. S. E. E. <hg...@dm...>]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Lyle Johnson wrote:

> 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

OK, I was not sure.
> > 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.

But there is no system-wide place where FOX will look for them, once
you have created them, either?

>
> > [...]editors and similar are a good way to pickup spyware...
> > get gtk+, which requires libungif, which requires libpng, which
>
> 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

The one called DEC OSF4 :-) and Solaris9, as well.

> 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 ;)

Yes, it seems very nice from what I have read.  I'm completely
confused about how to build that on Windows as well, but since I
don't have any compilers on there except within CYGWIN, that's
another (long) story.
>
> On Windows, I think I used to use one called Michelangelo (sp?) but I

Well, my best efforts with google still are clogged by refs to the
sculptor even with -sculpture -sculptor.

> couldn't tell you if it's still around, if it was shareware versus
> freeware, etc.
>
>
        Thank you,
        Hugh
>