Okay! I have vowed never to say the word "scheme" again and I am now completely terrified of LISP, but it works!
<http://dylanmccall.googlepages.com/icons.tar.gz> Here a nifty tool that builds pngs with nice reflections from svg sources. It depends on gimp, running it in batch mode with no interface, fonts or brushes. It currently does not do shadows, although that could be kind of cool. If we can stick to the same icon set, though, that problem could solve itself. Here I am using mainly Breathe** and Human icons. Most of the machinery is handled by gimp via reflection-script.scm: * Iterates through all svg files in current directory and loads them. They are immediately scaled to 185x185 pixels. * The Autocrop plugin is then applied to trim the images down neatly. The end result of this is that icons end up with different resolutions; not as predictable as before. Changing the canvas size at the end could resolve that, I guess. * Another script I downloaded is then called to create a reflection effect. I tweaked this slightly to blur the reflection. * Via an incredible mess of brackets and incomprehensible language, the .svg at the end of the file's name is removed so a new png image is created in the parent directory with .png cleanly placed at the end. * Done! Basically, just put all the SVG files you want in the ./icons/source directory, then run generate-pngs.sh to make it happen. It should Just Work! It's hard to beat the human touch that allows for the nice little drop shadows and well aligned reflections, but it took ages* so I'm putting it out there anyway :) For the most part, it's pretty similar. Let me know what you think! Thanks, Dylan *This being my first run-in with such a syntax and all. It felt like one of those obvious moments in a suspense story; I always heard little allusions to LISP and its horrors, and I always thought I was so safe... I'm actually quite shaken by this whole encounter and I expect never to live normally again. In fact, the bracket you see above is probably the last bracket I will be able to write in a long while. **The reason I'm not just using the icons that are shipped by default is that, in my view, those icons don't look very interesting at larger sizes. It's important to have them practically very similar to what is elsewhere on the default desktop, but I think it's worthwhile to choose the most stylish options within reason.
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