Re: Atypical mod to icons used to launch programs.

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 02/14/2018 01:56 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> On 02/14/18 10:57, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > I use Stretch with MATE as desktop.
> > My current icons are from /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48 .
> > I have multiple configurations of some programs installed.
> >
> > I would like to use icons that are semantically related.
> > I would like to use custom icons that are 48 high X 96 wide.
> > These would be created joining two 48x48 icons side by side.
> >
> > Would the MATE panel &/or desktop accept these?
> > Assuming it would, is there a simple graphic program that would accept 
> > to identically formatted images and place them side by side in a new 
> > image?
> > If MATE cannot accept rectangular rather than square icons, I suspect 
> > I can create an app that can (I think I've seen Tcl/Tk that could be 
> > adapted).
>
> I don't know what icons MATE will accept.
>
>
> As for making icons, the defacto OSS graphics editor is GIMP:
>
> https://www.gimp.org/
>
>
> Or, if you want a CLI app and/ or a library that you can call from your 
> favorite programming/ scripting language to exactly what you want:
>
> https://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

Thanks for trying. I had already downloaded both.
The are *TOO* powerful to be useful.
Using text processing as an analogy, I wish to concatenate two 10 
character strings to obtain a single 20 character string.
LaTeX could likely do that. But it's not appropriate.