On Saturday 13 Jun 2015 21:32:36 Alex DEKKER wrote: > On 13/06/15 19:04, Nick Boyce wrote: > > All this leaves me wondering what tool KDE developers on Debian use to > > create their packages' icons .... can anyone give me a clue ? > > Inkscape? AIUI, KDE icons are SVG [and have been for some time] so a > vector editor would be the order of the day.
Wow ... thanks, I had no idea. That change has completely passed me by. I've just been googling for anything I can find on the subject, and I can't say I've found much. The techbase.kde.org page talks mostly about PNG files and barely mentions SVGs: https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorial/Icons and the same is true at: http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qt-widgets-icons-example.html but I see that http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qicon.html has the comment: "The QIcon class provides scalable icons in different modes and states" "Since Qt 4.2, an icon engine that supports SVG is included" I guess this is all in aid of a more luscious pixel-sharp desktop so it must be a good thing :) Besides Inkscape (which I last used an aeon ago on Windows), do you believe I could use Karbon ("a vector drawing application ... support for ODG, SVG, PNG, PDF, WMF) ? That would surely be the KDE way .... I'll try it. I'd welcome a pointer to KDE requirements for a suitable SVG ..... I see here: http://en.flossmanuals.net/inkscape/ch055_creating-icons/ that a recommendation for Inkscape is "Icon 32 x 32", but I imagine there's more to it than that. Style guidelines ? Colour depth ? If there are no such docs then I'll find some SVG icon files and try to figure it out. Cheers (and thanks for the clue), Nick -- A week in the lab saves an hour in the library -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201506140353.26402.n...@glimmer.demon.co.uk