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#21 Post by **rich** » Sun May 27, 2018 1:08 pm

colin_b wrote: ↑Sun May 27, 2018 1:03 pm Hopefully they are attached...

Yep, they're good!

#22 Post by **PondLife** » Sun May 27, 2018 1:48 pm

Not as easy as you think to make good looking icons. Made one up today nice blue background fading out towards the top above the MX logo. Added it to the panel and just looks similar to the standard icon with an ugly white line across the top. Back to the drawing board!

#23 Post by **dolphin_oracle** » Sun May 27, 2018 4:58 pm

Ok, I can package them up.

what do you want to call the package? mx-start-icons-extra?

#24 Post by **Jerry3904** » Sun May 27, 2018 5:05 pm

What about using mx-icons as the general name, so here mx-icons-start

#25 Post by **colin_b** » Sun May 27, 2018 9:06 pm

with kind permission of antechdesigns < www.opendesktop.org/member/455534/ > (pursuant to Creative Commons Licence)

I've redone the names, and as a result I'm somewhat cross eyed.

The icons are now in a semi-logical order.

#26 Post by **asqwerth** » Sun May 27, 2018 11:15 pm

Thanks to your suggestion, colin_b, the collection of Start icons is being packaged for MX by dolphin!

I added an attribution notice to the collection to recognise antechdesigns' copyright and creative commons licence terms.

It'll take some time for the package to be pushed to the repositories.

Installing the package should add it to the same folder location as the default start icon, so that it's easy to change the icon for whisker menu.

#27 Post by **colin_b** » Mon May 28, 2018 5:42 pm

It's good to know antechdesigns icons will be a part of the distro. The icons will add numerous classy customization options OOTB, and that makes me smile

Just out of curiosity, since I've got the image optimization software dusted off I am wondering if there are any other images in the distro that could be optimized. PNG, GIF and JPG can be optimized. I'd be happy to give it a bash if I know where the images are hidden.

#28 Post by **Buck Fankers** » Tue May 29, 2018 10:35 am

colin_b wrote: ↑Sat May 26, 2018 1:00 pm Ulead SmartSaver Pro. It's ancient Windows software.

Thank you.

#29 Post by **colin_b** » Tue May 29, 2018 5:41 pm

As a footnote, I had a dig around and found the MX wallpapers that come with the distro. There are 12 files, one is a JPG and the rest are PNG files, and the total size of the files is 20.3MB. I converted the PNG files to JPGs and did optimizations which reduce file size but not quality, and the resultant size of the 12 files is 2.8MB.

Do you want the optimized JPG files?

#30 Post by **asqwerth** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 2:20 pm

Just an update:

Antech's Start Icons collection can now be found in the Popular Apps section of MX Package Installer, under the "Icons" category.

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