** Reply to message from Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 19 Jan
2008 15:56:39 -0800
> On Saturday 19 January 2008 14:53, Stan Goodman wrote:
> > I have on the desktop some Java programs which are displayed as
> > generic icons. I have much better icons, or can make, much more
> > intuitive icons for these. How must I go about replacing one for the
> > other?
>
> You don't say whether you're using KDE or Gnome. I can give you the KDE
> answer (Gnome is probably similar, but I can readily confirm that
> supposition or give any real details).
>
>
> The GUI way:
>
> Right click on the desktop icon in question. From the pop-menu that
> appears, select Properties (the last item in the menu). In the
> resulting dialog there are several tabs. Initially you see the General
> tab, and on that tab is the currently assigned icon. This is a button.
> Click it and the system will present you with a window holding all the
> icons known to KDE at the moment ("System icons"). You can pick one of
> these or switch to "Other icons." When you do that (select Other icons)
> the Browse... button will be enabled. Click that and you can use the
> resulting file system browsing dialog to locate the icon file you want
> to use or you can simply paste the absolute path name of that file into
> the Location field.
>
>
> The text editor way:
>
> Edit the desktop icon file (a text file) which by definition resides in
> ~/Desktop. By default, the file name is the same as the icon title with
> the suffix ".desktop" appended, but if you change the display name of
> the icon, the file name stays the same. In that file you should see a
> line that starts with "Icon=". The rest of that line is the absolute
> path name to the icon file. Replace it with the one you want to use. If
> there's no such line, add one.
>
>
> > What, if anything, must I do to convert Windows or OS/2 icons for use
> > in the Llinux desktop?
>
> KDE can use PNG, JPEG, GIF, XPM, SVG and .ico files. Probably you can
> just use whatever you've got.
>
> NOTE: The browser referred to in "The GUI way" above will only show PNG,
> XPM and SVG (including compressed SVG files with a .svgz suffix). But
> you can enter files of the other formats I mentioned, too. I rarely
> bother with the browsing bit, since I have scripts I use in the shell
> to copy the absolute path name of any file I choose to the clipboard.
>
>
> > --
> > Stan Goodman
>
>
> Randall Schulz
Many thanks. I should have added that I'm using KDE.
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