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Kevin Walzer

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Aug 17, 2006, 11:30:03 AM8/17/06
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Has anyone used the Silk icon set (
http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/ ) in their applications? It's
nicer than many of the older open-source icon sets that I often see in
Tcl/Tk apps (KDE, etc.), which tend to look dated. And it appears to
have license (Creative Commons attribution) that is compatible with both
commercial/proprietary applications and open-source.

Feedback is appreciated.

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Kevin Walzer
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http://www.kevin-walzer.com

Damon Courtney

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Aug 17, 2006, 12:17:57 PM8/17/06
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Never used it, but it seems to lack any icons other than 16x16. I
can still see it being useful for most applications, but I wouldn't be
able to for the lack of larger icons. It looks pretty nice though.

D

Jeff Godfrey

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Aug 17, 2006, 5:11:24 PM8/17/06
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"Kevin Walzer" <k...@kevin-walzer.com> wrote in message
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> Has anyone used the Silk icon set (
> http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/ ) in their applications?

I've never seen that set before. They look really nice, but as Damon
said, it's too bad the entire set seems to be 16x16. Still, for the
right application, they'd be great. Thanks for pointing them out.

Jeff


Jeff Hobbs

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Aug 18, 2006, 12:24:46 AM8/18/06
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Kevin Walzer wrote:
> Has anyone used the Silk icon set (
> http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/ ) in their applications? It's
> nicer than many of the older open-source icon sets that I often see in
> Tcl/Tk apps (KDE, etc.), which tend to look dated. And it appears to
> have license (Creative Commons attribution) that is compatible with both
> commercial/proprietary applications and open-source.

ActiveState is using these in the latest UI for PPM (the Perl Package
Manager, which uses a Tk UI). We had to make some modifications, but we
were overall pleased.

We did some interesting stuff in composing new icons from it. We would
layer one or more images over a base icon to create a composite image
that represented a new state icon.

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Jeff Hobbs, The Tcl Guy, http://www.activestate.com/

Damon Courtney

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Aug 18, 2006, 11:59:51 AM8/18/06
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I did this with the Crystal icon set for InstallJammer. It's
really easy to do, and you can come up with hundreds more icons just by
combining a few here and there.

I ended up writing an IconLibrary BWidget that handles all of this
in a really slick way.

Damon

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