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[zigbert]

Why not have some standard icons for the guys who write apps with Xdialog (and other GUIs as well)? Puppy could get a small facelift. If these icons was in a specified directory, it would be easy to call them from apps. It would both unify interface and save space.

I've made a suggestion out of the futurosoft icontheme. I have converted them to 48x48, *.xpm and 8 bit color-range.

[Dougal]

Isn't there a built-in icon for error messages?

[zigbert]

I've searched trough 'man Xdialog' but couldn't find any builtin icons, exept the button icons. Does GTK-dialog comes with icons?

[Dougal]

Oh, I think I might have been mistaken... just remembered the image of the infobox with a "warning" image from the documentation -- which in fact shows an example of using the icon option.

Gtkdialog has things like "exit" and "apply" built in. It's hard to tell what else -- they're not great on documentation...

[zigbert]

There are many nice icons on the Puppy CD, but most of them are *.png. Gtkdialog can use them, Xdialog needs raw files *.xpm. They are bigger in size, and after what I have seen, they can't show semi-transparent surfaces.

I have tweeked some icons futher to get them into PuppyBackup without blowing the idea of a tiny script.

The snapshot show 2 icons in 3 versions.
1. The original *.png
2. The earlier posted with 8 bits colordepth
3. The PuppyBackup icons with only 6 bits colordepth. That gives a much smaller filesize. Also smaller than the original *.png. It also gives a lower quality, but for me an PuppyBackup it is acceptable.

[zigbert]

Here is the info icon in 6-bit colordepth. It saves around 5k.

[zigbert]

and the question icon.

[Nathan F]

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[zigbert]

This is good news. The size is bigger (much bigger compressed), but they looks gorgeous. I guess it's no point of making the *.png icons ugly to get them smaller. Convert from *.xpm if wanted.

Thanks Nathan