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jeba, I love the JQ8flat-lite icons! I want some for more programs, but I don't wanna be a bother. I'd love to figure out how to use GIMP to make icons of that color scheme, if you don't mind.

jeba, I love the JQ8flat-lite icons! I want some for more programs, but I don't wanna be a bother. I'd love to figure out how to use GIMP to make icons of that color scheme, if you don't mind.

Thank you, wosifat.
But I don't have the skill to make an icon with GIMP.
I usually make an icon image with Illustrator or Inkscape.
I'm sorry.

jebaJQ8 wrote:

jeba, I love the JQ8flat-lite icons! I want some for more programs, but I don't wanna be a bother. I'd love to figure out how to use GIMP to make icons of that color scheme, if you don't mind.

Thank you, wosifat.
But I don't have the skill to make an icon with GIMP.
I usually make an icon image with Illustrator or Inkscape.
I'm sorry.

Jeba Puppy 4.2 now uses Pwidgets, and something we are missing are weather fonts, sure There are some free ones but I have a feeling you could make a really nice set using inkscape with a transparent background, you don't have to but it would be nice, I haven't the time to take on another large task, to build them you would need a font editor like the one found on this page
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=37816
you basically export the current font found on the pwidgets thread using Font Forge as svg and make a new one and replace it.
here's the Pwidget thread
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 906#266906
If your not interested its ok and if you are all the better
Oh ya they have to be black & white
ttuuxxx

jebaJQ8 these are the icons that we need replacing for pwidgets, B&W and transparent backgrounds. This way you don't have to mess around with Font Forge. These icons are I think shareware.
we just need ones that mean the same weather forecast but look more like your style of things.
ttuuxxx

jebaJQ8 these are the icons that we need replacing for pwidgets, B&W and transparent backgrounds. This way you don't have to mess around with Font Forge. These icons are I think shareware.
we just need ones that mean the same weather forecast but look more like your style of things.
ttuuxxx

ttuuxxx (and 01micko),

Thank you.
I got the files.

... I will try it.

All the thanks is to you JebaJQ8!

Mick

jebaJQ8

I forgot one of the letters in the original font package I uploaded, sorry!

Here it is

I forgot one of the letters in the original font package I uploaded, sorry!

Here it is

Thank you.
I got it.

jebaJQ8

jebaJQ8

'trio' on the forum has devised a new clock fix for Pwidgets. There was an issue where the clock would not appear automatically. However, zigbert is unable to use his minimal clock skin with the new fix.

I am wondering if you would like to create a nice, lightweight skin for zigbert? Size 140x140, png format. I think round. We all know he likes grey. Maybe to match the icon set?

Zigbert is also very happy with the weather font. Thanks again!

Regards

Mick

EDIT: It is not necessary now because we found another clockfix, but if you are bored one day...

I can't compete with WhoDo, but here is a theme that I started with 4.0 and finished a complete set in 4.2...I just zipped it up, so download it, unzip it in /usr/local/lib/X11/themes/ and it will be good to go...

Suggestion: I know you are busy, WhoDo, but would you mind maybe renaming this thread to something that can continue to include icon themes for 4.0 and up (Dingo + icon themes, or something...)? Or I can post this on another thread if a more appropriate thread is out there...

**Edit: thanks for the name change, WhoDo!

There are multiple icon themes out there...just go to kde-look.org or gnome-look.org to find stuff. But Puppy does icons so differently (viva la difference! cut's down on bloat) than everyone else it takes a while to convert stuff from different icon themes to Puppy.

These are mostly from snowish icon theme from kde-look.org, but I've modified sizes, names, added, changed, etc. as needed to fit to puppy's unique style.

Same as last one, just zipped up. Use pupzip, unzip/extract to /usr/local/lib/X11/themes/ and then Snowbound icon theme will be ready to go.

Oh, this is on 4.2 (love that it has "start-button.png" as one of the icons; gives a really nice modification!) with one of dejan555's backgrounds (way to go, dejan!).

*Edit: inspired by dejan (as he's prone to do) I made a pet file of these. it is the first official pet file that I've ever made, so please tell me if it installed well. I'm leaving the zip file there too in case my pet didn't go well...

**Edit again: looks like the pet file worked just great.

Incidentally, if someone has a more efficient way of making puppy icon themes, I think we would all be forever in your dept. As I mentioned, even if one isn't making icons from scratch (which you sometimes must do even if you didn't create the whole theme) it still takes quite a while to modify to meet the puppy protocols, moving, resizing, changing names, etc.

Just thought I'd mention that...

Black Dog icons for puppy 4.0+ available ina dotpet since March the 24th,
get it now!

dejan555 wrote:Black Dog icons for puppy 4.0+ available ina dotpet since March the 24th,
get it now!

thanks, dejan!

Very excited about this one (well, as excited as one can be about icons)! These are from the infamous (at least in the icon/artistic world) Paul Davey aka mattahan on deviantart. All rights reserved.

I've customized (including a custom menu icon) and modified for Puppy. I hope you like it as much as I do (if so, please post back).

steve_s wrote:I've customized (including a custom menu icon) and modified for Puppy. I hope you like it as much as I do (if so, please post back).

I like it so much I had it downloaded ages ago and never got around to creating the theme from it. I also have gartoon, which I suspect has a similar heritage. I made a theme for that but it needs to be updated to the new rules for 4.2 shortly to be announced. I will post those here when available. It should make themes smaller and simpler (I hope).

WhoDo wrote:

steve_s wrote:I've customized (including a custom menu icon) and modified for Puppy. I hope you like it as much as I do (if so, please post back).

I like it so much I had it downloaded ages ago and never got around to creating the theme from it.

LOL I'm not surprised you liked it...it's very artsy and eclectic; something that's hard to do with a simple icon..

WhoDo wrote: I also have gartoon, which I suspect has a similar heritage. I made a theme for that but it needs to be updated to the new rules for 4.2 shortly to be announced. I will post those here when available. It should make themes smaller and simpler (I hope).

...can't wait!

I'm using the blackdog icon theme on dpup, there were just 2 icons I didn't like, the default folder I found to dark and hard drive icon. Other than that its a nice change, i also like the Snowbound icons great work putting the packages together.
ttuuxxx
Below I used Whodo's L'orange drive icon that I recoloured and added a check-mark to
ttuuxxx

steve_s wrote:Very excited about this one (well, as excited as one can be about icons)! These are from the infamous (at least in the icon/artistic world) Paul Davey aka mattahan on deviantart. All rights reserved.

I've customized (including a custom menu icon) and modified for Puppy. I hope you like it as much as I do (if so, please post back).

Just for fun I did an mplayer skin specifically for this icon set and exclusively in Puppy. It is a modification of the brushed-gnome skin, but trying to get that Gant-esk effect actually took me some time.

The skin is located here.

I'm attaching a screenshot.

A list of choices is not complete without the antithesis of itself. Here is a set of un-icons.