Re: Atypical mod to icons used to launch programs.
On Wed 14 Feb 2018 at 18:49:29 (-0500), Forest Dean Feighner wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 6:46 PM, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed 14 Feb 2018 at 14:40:09 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Good, you're almost there.
> >
> > > The are *TOO* powerful to be useful.
> >
> > Nonsense.
> >
> > > Using text processing as an analogy, I wish to concatenate two 10
> > > character strings to obtain a single 20 character string.
> >
> > There's no comparison unless the images are just raw scans.
> > Even then, concatenation will only succeed if the scans have the
> > appropriate orientation.
> >
> > > LaTeX could likely do that. But it's not appropriate.
> >
> > Bad choice, LaTeX. Emacs would be a better analogy.
> >
> > Anyway, what you want is
> > convert thing1 thing2 +append output-thing
> Would there be a text based editor for svg?
[Please don't top-post.]
Emacs is a text based editor. What are you trying to do?
If you want to do the same thing as above with SVG files,
and preserve their SVG-ness, I'd use inkscape.
But it might be far too powerful for that. :)
Cheers,
David.
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