Great!! I will try to make some Box Icons for these apps. I will install them as well, I can't believe I forgot to install Childsplay on this machine. They really like it a lot. This gives me a good starting point for working on some icons! I have been so busy working on a game for my daughter that I had gotten sidetracked from icon making...
On 12/17/2013 08:54 AM, Eric Bradshaw wrote: > This morning I installed apps from the Education and Games catagories I'd > actually installed before (for my youngest) all from the Lubuntu Software > Center (so all in the repos) and added the icon line from the shortcut. I > noticed all the misbehaving icons are .xpm files (and I believe all 32x32px). > Now, there are plenty of .xpm files for other apps that show fine, but I > thought this was interesting and hopefully useful information. The icons I > added to the list below all show up roughly twice the size of the others in > each sub-menu they appear in. > > So here is the list so far: > *Not in repos:* > Greenfoot > > > *in the Repos:* > meterbridge > alsamixergui (not too bad) > Childsplay > Icon=logo_cp_32x32.xpm > Dr.geo > Icon=drgeo_32x32.xpm > Linux Letters and Numbers > Icon=lletters.xpm > Mobile Atlas Creator > Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/mobile-atlas-creator/mobac.xpm > > Eric >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lubuntu-users/attachments/20131216/d0d6baea/attachment-0001.html> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 08:01:33 -0600 >> From: Israel <israeld...@gmail.com> >> To: lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com >> Subject: Re: A few Lubuntu Menu things... >> Message-ID: <52af07bd.6010...@gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> Maybe we can simply make new icons for the box icon theme, if there >> isn't a simple way to edit the icon size. But I think imagemagik can >> resize things... or at least I think that is what the packaging files >> use to make icons. If you could remember (or find) which ones caused >> problems, we could start a list of icons that are unruly, and work on >> getting some made up for the Box icon theme, so at least the programs in >> the repos wont look awful. I too remember installing some stuff for my >> kids that looked bad, too... but I can't remember what it was. I also >> remember some of the music programs I have used had weird icons. I am >> starting the list with the two programs I have installed currently that >> are larger than the usual size. >> >> So here is the list so far: >> *Not in repos:* >> Greenfoot >> >> >> *in the Repos:* >> meterbridge >> alsamixergui (not too bad) >> >> >> >> On 12/16/2013 12:47 AM, Eric Bradshaw wrote: >>> I'd like to chime in with my agreement on the icon sizes in the menu >>> before the message below gets lost too far down in the shuffle. There >>> were certain games (and I believe maybe an educational app or two) I >>> had originally installed for my kids that I then removed specifically >>> because of icon size. It was more than just not aesthetically >>> pleasing; my kids would think (know?) there was something "wrong" with >>> the computer. >>> >>> If I hadn't been installing a slew of stuff at once (and none of them >>> were "must have" apps) - and my own kids were the only people I was >>> worried about installing for; I would've made my own icon (or at least >>> resized them) for these. I would think what you have to go through >>> sometimes for .desktop entry files and icon creation would be pretty >>> scary for a newcomer. Eric ------------------------------ Message: 3 >>> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 10:35:52 -0600 From: Israel >>> <israeld...@gmail.com> To: lubuntu user list >>> <lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> Subject: A few Lubuntu Menu things... >>> Message-ID: <52ac88e8.9050...@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; >>> charset=ISO-8859-1 Hey everyone, there are a few issues I'd like to >>> address. The first is the Ubuntu SDK and the Core Apps that can be >>> installed. The menu does not show all the Core Apps. It does show the >>> browser, however. I cannot seem to find any of the other applications >>> (i.e. the calculator). I posted a bug about it, but as it received no >>> attention it expired... https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1200780 The >>> second is the menu... when an app has a HUGE icon, the menu becomes >>> ridiculous. I have installed an app called Greenfoot, in hopes of >>> getting my kids into programming one day. The icon makes the menu take >>> up approximately 1/4 of the screen. I think there should be a way to >>> limit the size of icons in the menu, or force icons to display at a >>> standard size. There are ways to do this in the rules file for debian >>> packages when making them, so it seems like adding something to the >>> menu updating script could address this problem. I am not sure how to >>> do this, or if it is truly possible... but I figured I should post >>> something here, as there has been a lot of talk about converting >>> Windows users. And while these issues aren't show stoppers... having >>> an icon force the menu to take up a large part of the screen would >>> make the user feel like they are using a buggy OS, that lacks polish. >>> I know using the box icon theme will address this issue for most >>> available apps (thank you whoever made the penguin card game icons >>> look so much better... Rafael?), but Ubuntu is the most popular >>> GNU/Linux distro and so many third party apps make a deb package for >>> Ubuntu that can be downloaded and installed from their website (i.e. >>> Greenfoot). To be fair Unity also shows the greenfoot icon as a huge >>> blob, but it limits the size shown, and the issue is not present in >>> the side panel, only the dash when searching for it. People who come >>> to Lubuntu/Ubuntu will expect an experience similar to their previous >>> OS, so having something to convert icons to the appropriate size. >>> psuedocode: get(app.iconSize){ if (iconSize > maxIconSize) >>> {resize(iconSize);} else{return;} } >>> >>> > > > -- > Thank You, > God Bless, > Computers4Christians > http://www.Computers4Christians.org/ <http://computers4christians.org/> > > -- Regards
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