Changing KDE desktop icons on Mandrake

[green_man]

Asheville Joe wrote, On 08/29/03 1:04 PM:

 > Thanks to all who replied.  That worked.
 >
 > I found the "Other" icons in the dialog box.  How do I find 
files that
 > are icons or make new ones available that I might design?   Under
 > Windows they had a .ico on the end to identify them.
 >
[EDIT]

IIRC, they're down in /usr/share/icons, maybe under the program 
names, they
might be hidden directories too.
I'll have to dig around to find out.
There are several sizes, the larger images are stored as png 
files, the
smaller as xpm files.
Use konqueror's search for  *.png and *.xpm and you'll find a _HUGE_
list of them.

I diddled with my icons shortly after installing Mandrake, but the 
GIMP
gave me fits, so I did it in Windows.
I remember working in Windows with the .bmp, then saving as .ico, 
then
converting to .png or .xpm as size dictated.

There's a great FREE program for Windows [ it's also supposed to run
perfectly in WINE, but I've never been able to get WINE to do 
ANYTHING]
called IrfanView that can resize and save as all the different image
formats [with the plugins, audio , video, graphic, who knows what 
else].

Once I'd done the creation, editing, and conversion on the Windows 
side,
I just jumped the fence and used Konqueror Super User  to copy 
them from
the Windows partition to where they needed to reside for Linux to 
find
them.


For a while, when I was first trying to get the feel of it 
[Mandrake], I
built a theme where all of my Windows icons were replaced with the
comparable one from KDE/Mandrake ;-)
i.e.. WordPad used KWord's, CDPlayer used Kcd, etc.



As an aside, does anyone know where the CURSOR images are kept ??
I hate that b/w arrow - I want the big RED one that I made.

-- 
The sole purpose of my life is, apparently, to test my sanity.

Scott
Netscape 7.0 on Win 98 SE