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[SFR]

Icons in Puppy are located in many, sometimes exotic, places.
This application helps to find them all and display at once.

Icon Finder will be useful, for instance:
- for users who want to easily find icons for new desktop shortcuts,
- for devs in searching for non gtk-stock icons for their apps,
(as a bonus I've included 'Gtk stock icons' viewer too, posted here by Smokey01)

Usage:

1. On the first run there's request to create a new list.
It may take even a few minutes - depends of your system specs and amount of icons.
2. When the list is already created, a window with icons will be displayed (see screenshot).
3. You can hover an icon to see its location and resolution.
4. You can click an icon to locate it via ROX-Filer.
5. If there were changes in your system and want to re-search icons, use 'Menu -> Create new list'.

More info:

Supported formats are: bmp gif ico jpg pcx png ppm pnm svg tga tif xpm
The app is not extensively tested, so I can't say if every variant of the above formats will be processed properly.

The minimum and maximum sizes of icons are set to 0x0-64x64, but it can be edited ('Menu -> Settings'), just remember to adjust the size of buttons too - it must be ~10px larger, to fit icons within...or use 'Scale images' option.

Requirements:

Gtkdialog >= 0.8.0, awk, cut, tr, grep, head, tail, file, exiv2 (or feh), xmessage, xrandr, Xdialog (all should be already included in most/all of modern Puppies)

Known issues:

Icon Finder examines files by extension and, depending on this info, tries to acquire their resolution.
If a file has altered extension (not corresponding to its real type), it won't be processed correctly and therefore not displayed.
BTW, I'm aware of a tool called "identify", but I didn't want to include any external tool that is not already in Puppy.

Files with spaces in filename are processed and displayed correctly, but in some Puppies won't be located via ROX-Filer (rox -s "$FILENAME").
This happens in Slacko-5.3.3, but not in Lupu-528; must be caused by different ROX versions...
EDIT: I've found the problem, it's /usr/local/bin/rox
If you're on Slacko 5.3.3 and the problem bothers you, open the above file and add double quotes, as shown below:

[SFR]

Fixes in v1.0b1:

1. Redesigned GUI.
I had to resign of the drop down menu because there's a following problem with Gtkdialog-0.8.0.
It seems that if there are <menubar><menu><menuitem>... tags used in the GUI, then if one close such a window using 'X' and not through "Quit" option, the process remains active and previously allocated memory isn't freed (according to ps, htop and free commands).
...and the app is very resource hungry, so it is a problem.
If a GUI doesn't have menu everything's fine, so I used buttons instead...
BTW, I've tested the app with the latest Gtkdialog-0.8.2 and the problem didn't pop up there.

2. Changed the default max. icon res. from 48x48 to 64x64.

3. Tuned "Scale images" option.

Greetings!

[disciple]

Hi SFR,
I have added this to the list of programs using gtkdialog.
Do you have any other programs you can add?
Thanks.

[SFR]

Hey Disciple.

Yup, there's a few more; I've added them to your thread.

Thanks & Greetings!

[disciple]

Great, thanks. The text encryption one looks pretty cool

[RSH]

Ok.

I wish this application would happen earlier - much earlier. I like this and so I have made an sfs from this one and do use it from sfs in LazY Puppy.

I like this that much, so i have made an icon for it.

Hope you like this.

RSH

[RSH]

[SFR]

[RSH]

Redraw issue in iconfinder?

I have 4817 icons in LazY Puppy. At scroll-down redraw "crashes".


Is it the iconfinder or is it gtkdialog?

Maybe this could be solved using gtkdialog object notebook (tabs)? One tab for icons smaller 48 pixel and another tab for icons equal and bigger than 48 pixel.

[SFR]

Not sure...
I just loaded 6499 icons and have not such a problem (except initial slowness).
If there's a lot of icons to display, actions like resizing or maximizing can give an illusion of hanging up, but after longer pause things back to normal...

BTW, how much RAM do you have?
For those 6499 images IconFinder has stolen ~155M of mem.

EDIT:
Done a quick test with <notepad>.
Disaster - it's painfully slow during switching tabs (same behaviour as during resizing).
And the RAM consumption is the same, no difference.
It's not a way, unfortunately...
But thanks for a suggestion.

Greetings!

[RSH]

[SFR]

[SFR]

@RSH:
I just downloaded your latest LazY (great splash-screen, btw!)...and experienced this "crash" at last (5076 icons).

Here's what I've noticed, perhaps it gives you some clues:

When I launched IconFinder from the menu entry, it stopped displaying icons indeed, approximately at ~70% of scrollbar's lenght.
Additionaly, scrollbar was, let's say, "jumpy".

However when I launched IconFinder from terminal window (but only ROX-Term, because urxvt gives the same effect!), the problem just gone, everything worked fine, without "crashes" and scrollbar was moving smoothly.

Weird, isn't it?

HTH
Greetings!

[SFR]

Update: version 1.0b3

I just noticed that the latest Barry's Precise (beta 7) has Bash v3.00 and IconFinder was written using Bash v4.1.0

But it was enough to change just one line and now it works in this Puppy, too.

NOTICE: if anyone tried to launch IconFinder on Precise before and have installed corrected version now, it's necessary to delete /root/.icon_finder directory or else app will not start.

Summarizing, IconFinder has been tested and works on the following Puppies, so far:
- Slacko-5.3.3
- Lupuplus-528.005-1
- LazYPuppy-2.0.2-Final (with problems, see the previous posts)
- Precise-5.3.95.1 (beta 7)

Greetings!

[RSH]

Hi, SFR.

The issue with iconfinder in LazY Puppy seems not to depend on the numbers of icons. I have reproduced this right now with a count of 3910 icons ---> free RAM is about 990 MB.

Everything works fine if using 12 columns instead of 8 columns!

LazY Puppy has installed gtkdialog4 (0.8.0) ---> which version of gtkdialog4 do you use?