Hi Tim. Thanks for the good kick up the butt. It prompted me to work on my desktop icons again. I picked up a nice little icon for zynaddsubfx off of Slackware 10.0 which has brightened up FC1 & FC2's desktop, as it only had a sheet of paper with a big orange ? . Hydrogen installed without a menu entry, and I hate to admit it but have only just found Kmenuedit. Doh. That ones on the desktop now on Slackware 10.0. Bit of a problem with Firefox on FC2. It starts from a shell script in the home directory and Kmenuedit didn't want to know. But creating a launcher from the desktop has dealt with that. Next step, and the one your talking about is making icons from scratch with the Gimp, for fweelin,Swami,amsynth,and the list goes on. I havn't worked with the Gimp before but am willing to have a go for the sake of desktop aesthetics. I'm attaching the zynaddsubfx icon,courtesy of Slackware 10.0.Nigel. On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 11:52 am, tim hall wrote: > Last Sunday 10 April 2005 09:04, Kai Vehmanen was like: > > All those apps and not ecasound... where did my marketing go wrong? ;) > > There's a kind of user blind spot, due to ecasound being a command-line > app. People only tend to think of trying it if they know it or specifically > prefer command-line tools. This is why I have pushed for ecasound -c to > have a menu entry (under Debian at least) and I'm now trying to think up a > suitable icon or two to go with it. Experienced users tend to know where > their tools are and don't mind, possibly even like the fact that it comes > in a plain brown wrapper. The software and documentation are wonderful, but > it doesn't leap off the shelf at you. > > Several Linux Audio packages lack icons, so I'm happy to coordinate efforts > to create / find them. Unfortunately I'm not much of an artist, so I > thought I might mention this here in case there are any GIMP/Blender > experts lurking on the list who would be interested in contributing. I'm > currently open to requests from other developers who know that they don't > have any suitable images in their source code. I'm also happy to receive > pointers to other icons that I'm likely to have missed or suitably > convertible images. > > I am prepared to coordinate farming the icons out for distribution - any > suggestions on how to make them all available to all Linux Audio Users, as > well as DeMuDi (excepting the few DeMuDi-specific icons I have done) will > be gratefully received. While I'm at it, thanks to all the Authors, > Developers and Maintainers who have responded so positively so far. I > understand how much this may seem like a side-issue. > > cheers, > > tim hall > http://glastonburymusic.org.uk -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: zynaddsubfx-icon.png Type: image/png Size: 5665 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-user/attachments/20050412/6cc5ecaa/zynaddsubfx-icon-0001.png
