12 Apr
2005
12 Apr
'05
4:09 p.m.
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 