Re: FVWM: Mini-icons?

From: Brady Montz <bradym_at_cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 08 Oct 1996 10:12:09 -0700

"Paul D. Smith" <psmith_at_BayNetworks.com> writes:

>
> Does anyone here know of repositories for mini-icons (other than those
> that come with FVWM)?
>
> I'm not even necessarily looking for mini-icons, as much as small
> icons... esp. height-wise. E.g., I have a little xterm pixmap that's
> 29x23 and that's very close to perfect size... could be a little taller
> but not much.
>
> This is more for button bars than for menu or frame buttons: I don't
> want my button bar to be too tall (wide is OK, since I use a horizontal
> bar :) and I want to stack two buttons on top of each other.
>
> I have the AIcons package, but don't see much smaller than 32x32 in that.
>
> Alternatively (or in addition :), does anyone have a reasonably reliable
> way of shrinking xpms, without too much distortion? Seems unlikely, but
> you never know :)

The fvwm95 distribution has a fair set of them:
http://ltiwww.epfl.ch/~barth/fvwm95.html

They're in the big tar file with everything else.

The only way I know of to shrink XPM's is to use XV or ImageMagick to shrink
them, and then go in with xpaint to patch things up. Depending on what the
xpm is, and how you shrink it, you might explode the number of colors as a
result of whatever smoothing process occurs. You can use ppmquant to quantize
a ppm file, and the ImageMagick tools can do that as well.

I personally either just draw mine myself (good for ugly pixmaps, boo hoo), or
shrink a nice one, and then use that as a guide to draw a cleaner one.

-- 
 Brady Montz
 bradym_at_cs.arizona.edu
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