[opensuse] Replacing an icon on the desktop
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? What, if anything, must I do to convert Windows or OS/2 icons for use in the Llinux desktop? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel Old Fart n. slang (old fart'; in New England, old faaht') Tribal Elder. Used in deprecation especially by males younger than 20 years. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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?
What, if anything, must I do to convert Windows or OS/2 icons for use in the Llinux desktop?
1. copy the .ico file to your Linux machine 2. right click -> properties 3. click on the icon image to select a new one. Here's a little trick -- always try right-clicking on things... you'll be amazed at how easy it is to find the controls to adjust a great many things on the desktop (including adding an removing things), the task bar, etc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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
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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. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel In response to a demand by Pat Robertson, the human species will henceforth be known as "Hetero Sapiens". His proposal for changing the name of Homo Erectus is still being debated. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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?
Open the properties for the icon. You'll see the icon on the first tab. Click on it, to choose another.
What, if anything, must I do to convert Windows or OS/2 icons for use in the Llinux desktop?
IIRC, Linux uses PNG format for icons. I don't know about others. So, you'll have to convert to PNG, if Linux doesn't support what you've got. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 20 January 2008 16:40:42 James Knott wrote:
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?
Open the properties for the icon. You'll see the icon on the first tab. Click on it, to choose another.
Someone else today said to MB2 (left-handed people don't talk about "right click") the existing icon to do this. But that leads to the properties of the underlying file, not of the icon. In the past few days I have been looking for ways to edit icons, but haven't found anything. Where are the properties of the icon?
What, if anything, must I do to convert Windows or OS/2 icons for use in the Llinux desktop?
IIRC, Linux uses PNG format for icons. I don't know about others. So, you'll have to convert to PNG, if Linux doesn't support what you've got.
No problem. Thank you. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 20 January 2008 07:16, Stan Goodman wrote:
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Someone else today said to MB2 (left-handed people don't talk about "right click") the existing icon to do this. But that leads to the properties of the underlying file, not of the icon. In the past few days I have been looking for ways to edit icons, but haven't found anything. Where are the properties of the icon?
The answer lies in my original response. Desktop icons are represented by text files whose names end in ".desktop" in each users ~/Desktop directory. In these files is the path name to the icon file. You can use that path name to find or open the icon file in order to produce a variant using one of the various image editing programs.
What, if anything, must I do to convert Windows or OS/2 icons for use in the Llinux desktop?
IIRC, Linux uses PNG format for icons. I don't know about others. So, you'll have to convert to PNG, if Linux doesn't support what you've got.
Again, my response listed the acceptable types: PNG, JPEG, GIF, XPM, SVG and .ico. There may be even more, but these will work.
Stan Goodman
Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Stan Goodman wrote:
On Sunday 20 January 2008 16:40:42 James Knott wrote:
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? Open the properties for the icon. You'll see the icon on the first tab. Click on it, to choose another.
Someone else today said to MB2 (left-handed people don't talk about "right click") the existing icon to do this. But that leads to the properties of the underlying file, not of the icon.
You click the icon and *voila*...there's the new icon selector. At least that's how it works in KDE. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 21 January 2008 05:31:44 Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Stan Goodman wrote:
On Sunday 20 January 2008 16:40:42 James Knott wrote:
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?
Open the properties for the icon. You'll see the icon on the first tab. Click on it, to choose another.
Someone else today said to MB2 (left-handed people don't talk about "right click") the existing icon to do this. But that leads to the properties of the underlying file, not of the icon.
You click the icon and *voila*...there's the new icon selector.
At least that's how it works in KDE.
KDE is what I have here. At the risk of revealing a degree of obtuseness that even I did not know I possess, here is what I see when I click MB2 on a program icon and utter the incantation "voila": Open Cut Copy Rename Move to trash Open with Actions Compress Copy to Move to Properties Examining the sub-options for each one of the above, I find no mention of "icon". What am I missing? N.B.: It works the same way with "Eureka" instead of "voila". -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 21 January 2008, Stan Goodman wrote:
On Monday 21 January 2008 05:31:44 Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Stan Goodman wrote:
On Sunday 20 January 2008 16:40:42 James Knott wrote:
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?
Open the properties for the icon. You'll see the icon on the first tab. Click on it, to choose another.
Someone else today said to MB2 (left-handed people don't talk about "right click") the existing icon to do this. But that leads to the properties of the underlying file, not of the icon.
You click the icon and *voila*...there's the new icon selector.
At least that's how it works in KDE.
KDE is what I have here.
At the risk of revealing a degree of obtuseness that even I did not know I possess, here is what I see when I click MB2 on a program icon and utter the incantation "voila":
Open Cut Copy Rename Move to trash Open with Actions Compress Copy to Move to Properties
Examining the sub-options for each one of the above, I find no mention of "icon". What am I missing?
N.B.: It works the same way with "Eureka" instead of "voila".
-- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel
Click on the Properties selection click on the picture of the icon in the properties box make your choice click on ok bingo done . -- SuSE Linux 10.3-Alpha3. (Linux is like a wigwam - no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Stan Goodman wrote:
On Monday 21 January 2008 05:31:44 Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Stan Goodman wrote:
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? Open the properties for the icon. You'll see the icon on the first tab. Click on it, to choose another. Someone else today said to MB2 (left-handed people don't talk about "right click") the existing icon to do this. But that leads to the
On Sunday 20 January 2008 16:40:42 James Knott wrote: properties of the underlying file, not of the icon. You click the icon and *voila*...there's the new icon selector.
At least that's how it works in KDE.
KDE is what I have here.
At the risk of revealing a degree of obtuseness that even I did not know I possess, here is what I see when I click MB2 on a program icon and utter the incantation "voila":
Open Cut Copy Rename Move to trash Open with Actions Compress Copy to Move to Properties
Examining the sub-options for each one of the above, I find no mention of "icon". What am I missing?
You failed to complete the directions which I wrote previously. Select "Properties"... when you see the icon in the properties window, click on it, and you will be given the opportunity to select a new icon image.
N.B.: It works the same way with "Eureka" instead of "voila".
You gotta follow the directions. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Stan Goodman wrote:
At the risk of revealing a degree of obtuseness that even I did not know I possess, here is what I see when I click MB2 on a program icon and utter the incantation "voila":
Open Cut Copy Rename Move to trash Open with Actions Compress Copy to Move to Properties
Examining the sub-options for each one of the above, I find no mention of "icon". What am I missing?
N.B.: It works the same way with "Eureka" instead of "voila".
Such things are usually found under Properties, no matter what OS. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
James Knott wrote:
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?
Open the properties for the icon. You'll see the icon on the first tab. Click on it, to choose another.
What, if anything, must I do to convert Windows or OS/2 icons for use in the Llinux desktop?
IIRC, Linux uses PNG format for icons. I don't know about others. So, you'll have to convert to PNG, if Linux doesn't support what you've got.
KDE can use any common image format. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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