Resolved -[Re: Atypical mod to icons used to launch programs.]

[Richard Owlett]

On 02/14/2018 05:46 PM, David Wright 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.



ImageMagick can indeed do what I want using
  montage icon1.png icon2.png -mode Concatenate -tile x1 output.png

My problem was how the homepage was laid out, concealing what an end 
user rather than programmer would want.


Someone on another forum pointed me to
"ImageMagick v6 Examples -- Montage, Arrays of Images"


That page is well written and its intended audience is users such as 
myself. YMMV


I can't use the result as I intended on MATE's panels - it only displays 
square [not rectangular] images. However, when used on the desktop, it 
does fine.

Thanks.

Re: Atypical mod to icons used to launch programs.

[tomas]

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On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 06:49:29PM -0500, Forest Dean Feighner wrote:
> Would there be a text based editor for svg?

(top-posting confuses the hell out of me)

Yes, Emacs is happy to edit an SVG. It will even switch between
view as image and view at text at the touch of a button.

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Re: Atypical mod to icons used to launch programs.

[David Wright]

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 
> 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.

Re: Atypical mod to icons used to launch programs.

[Forest Dean Feighner]

Would there be a text based editor for svg?


On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 6:46 PM, David Wright 
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
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
>

Re: Atypical mod to icons used to launch programs.

[David Wright]

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

Cheers,
David.

Re: Atypical mod to icons used to launch programs.

[Richard Owlett]

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.

Re: Atypical mod to icons used to launch programs.

[David Christensen]

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


David

Atypical mod to icons used to launch programs.

[Richard Owlett]

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).


TIA