Re: [ jEdit-users ] Custom Icons

[Stuart B. <stu...@hu...>]

It would be good if we could build with an open source std set of icons.
I dont want to have to re-learn 'what icon means what' with each app I use.

Is the OpenOffice set a common set that other apps are using?



Pete Prodoehl wrote:
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> I took the icons from OpenOffice.org, that are released under the LGPL, 
> and bundled them up into a jar file for use in jEdit.
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> The jar file is here:
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>  http://rasterweb.net/raster/code/src/jedit/icons/oooicons.jar
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> Put this in your ~/jedit/jars/ folder...
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> There is also a startup script needed to load the icons, you can find 
> that here:
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>  http://rasterweb.net/raster/code/src/jedit/icons/oooicons.bsh
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> Put this in your  ~/jedit/startup/ folder...
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> Here's what it looks like under Windows:
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>  http://rasterweb.net/raster/code/src/screenshots/jeditoooicons.png
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> Obviously not all jEdit icons are represented, and it could use a little 
> tweaking, but this was just to demonstrates how easy it is to load a new 
> set of icons into jEdit. (Thanks Slava!)
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> This is how I did it:
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> I un-jar'd the jedit.jar file and located the 'icons' directory, which 
> was here: org/gjt/sp/jedit/icons
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> I then used the icons directory as a starting point, and found as many 
> replacement icons as I could, copying them into place with the proper 
> names.
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> I then jar'd the icons folder naming it 'oooicons.jar' and created the 
> startup script to specify the icon jar to load.
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> That's about it.
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> Does that make sense? Is it enough to be a MINI-HOWTO? Does it need 
> expansion?
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> Feedback would be appreciated...
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> (I plan on doing this process again with some other icon sets, so maybe 
> I'll make notes as I go this time.)
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