Re: [wheezy] Icon Editor For KDE ?

2015-06-19 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Tuesday 16 June 2015 21:49:12 Alex DEKKER wrote: On 16/06/15 19:03, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: On Sunday 14 June 2015 11:43:37 Alex DEKKER wrote: Looking through /usr/share/kde4/apps/*/icons it seems that, er, perhaps PNG is the dominant icon format after all. Obviously

Re: [wheezy] Icon Editor For KDE ?

2015-06-16 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Sunday 14 June 2015 11:43:37 Alex DEKKER wrote: On 14/06/15 03:53, Nick Boyce wrote: On Saturday 13 Jun 2015 21:32:36 Alex DEKKER wrote: 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.

Re: [wheezy] Icon Editor For KDE ?

2015-06-16 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 16/06/15 19:03, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: On Sunday 14 June 2015 11:43:37 Alex DEKKER wrote: Looking through /usr/share/kde4/apps/*/icons it seems that, er, perhaps PNG is the dominant icon format after all. Obviously the number of PNG files on disk is more than SVG because

Re: [wheezy] Icon Editor For KDE ?

2015-06-15 Thread Nick Boyce
On Sunday 14 Jun 2015 11:43:37 Alex DEKKER wrote: Allow me to row back somewhat: $ locate kde4/apps | grep icons | grep svg | wc -l 134 $ locate kde4/apps | grep icons | grep png | wc -l 1090 Looking through /usr/share/kde4/apps/*/icons it seems that, er, perhaps PNG is the dominant

RE: [wheezy] Icon Editor For KDE ?

2015-06-15 Thread Nick Boyce
On Sunday 14 Jun 2015 11:43:37 Alex DEKKER wrote: Allow me to row back somewhat: $ locate kde4/apps | grep icons | grep svg | wc -l 134 $ locate kde4/apps | grep icons | grep png | wc -l 1090 Looking through /usr/share/kde4/apps/*/icons it seems that, er, perhaps PNG is the dominant

Re: [wheezy] Icon Editor For KDE ?

2015-06-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/06/15 12:15 PM, Nick Boyce wrote: On Sunday 14 Jun 2015 11:43:37 Alex DEKKER wrote: Allow me to row back somewhat: $ locate kde4/apps | grep icons | grep svg | wc -l 134 $ locate kde4/apps | grep icons | grep png | wc -l 1090 Looking through /usr/share/kde4/apps/*/icons it seems that,

Re: [wheezy] Icon Editor For KDE ?

2015-06-15 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 15/06/15 17:15, Nick Boyce wrote: I wonder whether this may have anything to do with the lack of a special-purpose SVG-oriented icon editor. Inkscape is probably the best Free vector drawing programme going, and it has an icon preview mode... At one SVG icon-set page I found :

Re: [wheezy] Icon Editor For KDE ?

2015-06-14 Thread Alex DEKKER
On 14/06/15 03:53, Nick Boyce wrote: On Saturday 13 Jun 2015 21:32:36 Alex DEKKER wrote: 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. Allow me to row

Re: [wheezy] Icon Editor For KDE ?

2015-06-13 Thread Nick Boyce
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

Re: [wheezy] Icon Editor For KDE ?

2015-06-13 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Saturday 13 June 2015 21:32:36 Alex DEKKER wrote: [snip] Inkscape? AIUI, KDE icons are SVG [and have been for some time] so a vector editor would be the order of the day. Right, icons should now be created form SVGs (or at least preferably). You might consider grabbing one and use it as a

[wheezy] Icon Editor For KDE ?

2015-06-13 Thread Nick Boyce
As part of learning KDE-programming I want to try creating a custom icon for a home-grown app - but have immediately hit a problem: there seems to be just one icon editor utility for KDE, called KIconEdit, but there is no kiconedit package in current versions of Debian. The last version of

Re: [wheezy] Icon Editor For KDE ?

2015-06-13 Thread Alex DEKKER
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. alexd