[wheezy] Icon Editor For KDE ?
As part of learning KDE-programming I want to try creating a custom icon for a
home-grown app - but have immediately hit a problem: there seems to be just
one icon editor utility for KDE, called KIconEdit, but there is no kiconedit
package in current versions of Debian.
The last version of Debian that had a package was lenny, which had a version
3.5.9:
http://archive.debian.net/lenny/kiconedit
which suggests that there may never have existed a KDE4 kiconedit package for
Debian.
There was an RFP for kiconedit 4.3.3 in 2009:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561495
but it looks as though that never got anywhere - and anyway, the RFP bug
includes these comments:
"I started to package this program but the package
is not finished yet .... This program at the moment
is dead upstream ... [the program] has some bugs,
for instance the copy/paste functionality is broken
and has also other small issues"
There is only one bug report at bugs.kde.org for kiconedit - a wishlist bug
about removing Qt 3 dependencies, which has apparently never been completed:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264698
and there is no mention at kde.org of the package being "dead":
https://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/kiconedit/
There's an Ubuntu package of version 4.4.0:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/kiconedit
(I wonder what their source was for it).
[Obviously there is an opportunity for me here to be useful and work on
kiconedit, but until such time as I'm actually competent enough, what to do
...]
All this leaves me wondering what tool KDE developers on Debian use to create
their packages' icons .... can anyone give me a clue ?
Googling reveals various hacks such as creating .PNG files using a standard
paint program, and then converting them to .ICO format using some other tool -
but as someone else commented in a thread about the issue, "that doesn't
provide the classic UI of an icon editor" (with both a zoomed-in and zoomed-
out representation to look at while you work).
So what does everyone else use for this task ?
All pointers welcome.
Cheers
Nick
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holocaust ~~ Bill Hicks
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