<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Mike Hearn wrote: <blockquote cite="midpan.2005.06.17.16.07.11.724229@navi.cx" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 23:34:12 +0200, Leslie Viljoen wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I made a .desktop file and an icon for sopwith, what next? Does that help? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Why not submit them upstream rather than apply them as an Ubuntu specific patch? </pre> </blockquote> Very true. siretart has the files, but I will send them on to the authors too. <blockquote cite="midpan.2005.06.17.16.07.11.724229@navi.cx" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Also, FWIW the best way to do this is to get somebody to draw an SVG icon, then use the make-icons script. This will pre-render the SVG to various sizes and output to various directories, then print an automake fragment to stdout that you can copy/paste into a Makefile.am: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cvs.sunsite.dk/viewcvs.cgi/autopackage/apbuild/make-icons?rev=1.1">http://cvs.sunsite.dk/viewcvs.cgi/autopackage/apbuild/make-icons?rev=1.1</a> The pre-rendered icons can sometimes look bad at small sizes, particularly if they have perspective. In that case you need the original icon artist to redraw them in the GIMP pixel by pixel to make them sharper again, etc. For people doing this work generally, there are some great artists hanging out at deviantart.com if like me you suck at drawing :) For instance AJ Ashton kindly drew an icon for Stellarium, which together with a .desktop file I recently submitted upstream. In this case his icon was simple and flat enough that it looked good even at small sizes so no redrawing was necessary. </pre> </blockquote> Heh, I cheated on that one because the only icon I have done so far was for Sopwith and it's an 80's CGA game. Nothing signifies it better than a little cyan and magenta plane grabbed from the actual game (with a nice shadow). I don't suck at art, but the deviant art people are probably better (and faster). <blockquote cite="midpan.2005.06.17.16.07.11.724229@navi.cx" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> thanks -mike </pre> </blockquote> Thank-you for the tips! <blockquote cite="midpan.2005.06.17.16.07.11.724229@navi.cx" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>