Re: [Sketch-list] Desktop / menu icons?

[Bernhard Herzog]

Bernhard Reiter <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 04:20:19PM -0700, Andrew Grimberg wrote:
> 
> > The only problem is that I don't have a decent menu icon to use with
> > it.  Unless there's one in the tarball that I'm missing...  Now, while I
> > love sketch and use it quite a bit myself for a few things, I'm not an
> > artist per se and so I'm kinda asking for some help there :)  It will
> > need to be 48x48 and best in PNG format.

Well, there's is Portrait.xbm with Portrait_mask.xbm as mask, which is
what Sketch 0.6 uses as the icon at runtime. It would be nice to have a
better icon than that, though.

> I believe Taiabati might make a suggestion for an about graphic.
> Maybe that can also be used as icon.

Indeed. Although I'd have to see it before I decide :)

> However it is left to Bernhard to decide which should be the official one.
> :)

When I made the first releases in 1998 I thought that there should be a
contest for a Sketch logo and icon for the 1.0 version. 1.0 seems to be
even further in the future now as it seemed back then -- I probably was
too naive and optimistic back then :) -- so we might as well get a real
icon now.


> > Now, I do have one questions to folks in general.  As some of you may be
> > aware, I've been the one building the RedHat specific RPMS for the last
> > couple of releases.  Well, things have gotten a little less flexible for
> > me and I no longer have access to a machine that isn't RH9.  Is this
> > going to cause grief for a lot of folks or am I going to have to go
> > searching for at least a RH8 machine or even all the way back to RH7.3?
> 
> Hard to tell.
> I believe that there will be many people out there having
> older versions of GNU/Linux-Distributions. Whether they depend
> on Sketch being packages for them, I can't tell.

FWIW, Sourceforge's download statistics for Sketch suggest that the tgz
is about as popular as all the RPMs combined:

sketch-0.6.15-1-rh7x.i386.rpm     420
sketch-0.6.15-1-rh7x.i686.rpm     540
sketch-0.6.15-1-rh8x.i386.rpm     734
sketch-0.6.15-1-rh8x.i686.rpm    1286
sketch-0.6.15-1.src.rpm           907
sketch-0.6.15.tar.gz             3606

   Bernhard

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