Re: Additional icons

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)
Sat, 10 Jun 1995 16:56:02 +0200

Hi!

gs@omega.scs.howard.edu said:

gs> I am pretty new to tkined and find the current icons somewhat
gs> limited. Are there any sites from which I can get others?
gs> I found a site with some in the sun icon format but can't
gs> convert them to bm format. How can I do this? Is integrating
gs> new icons as simple as placing them in the bitmap directory?

You can convert icons from sun icon format by using the pbmplus
package. It contains two programs named icontopbm and pbmtoxbm. Use
archie to find the pbmplus package.

Integration of new icons requires to make them known to tkined. You
have to edit the /usr/local/lib/tkined/tkined.defaults file. It
contains definitions like:

tkined.node42: HP7550.xbm Peripherals:HP Plotter 7550

This looks much like X11 defaults. The line above defines icon number
42 for a NODE object which is stored in the file HP7550.xbm. This icon
will appear if you select the `HP Plotter 7550' command in the icon
sub-menu named `Peripherals' in the icon menu.

You can create your personal setup by doing all this in your ~/.tkined
directory and leaving the files in /usr/local/lib/tkined unchanged.
It is also possible to make use of the /usr/local/lib/tkined/site
directory, which will not be overwritten if you install a new tkined
version.

Juergen