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 <deb...@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.