FontForge Icons
George Williams posted on the FontForge mailing list today:
the cvs tree contains little icons in the menus. I’m not the greatest icon designer. If anyone would like to redo them so they are nicer that would be great. There is one unexpected caveat: FontForge doesn’t handle alpha channels, so all icons should be indexed images with a transparent color. (This corresponds to an alpha channel which is either all on or all off inside gimp).
I hope the toolkit FontForge uses will be improved further one day - anti aliased fonts would be my Number One feature :-) - but this feature has been dormant for a while, apparently.
I’ve suggested using the Tango icons, and Alex P suggested the Art Libre Set, although the license status is in flux I think this is a great idea.
George, diplomatic as always, already coded up a solution for this too:
There is a preference item Generic->PixmapDir which allows you to select a directory in which to find icon files, so ff could come with several different styles of icons and users could pick the one they liked. Personally I think that’s a better approach than fixing on just one style (though I agree, the default style should be consistent, and isn’t currently).
Awesome :-)
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June 18, 2008 |
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