Hello everybody! I uploaded a black and white theme to kde-look.org. The icons can be used by LCD/Monochrome-displays and by visually impaired people. http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=777 I made the icons quite some time ago, as a first sketch of an official black and white icon theme for KDE. As I was the only one working on it, and was drawn to other things, presently the set is unmaintained :-( With the possibility to choose icon themes now in KDE, I made a theme out of the icons, so they can easily be used. Take a look! I do not know whether GNOME has a black and white icon theme. Sharing some bw icons would be good for visually impaired people. The read-me has info on the design principles. Cordialemente, Ante
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Welcome to the KDE Black & White icons. These icons can be used by LCD/Monochrome-displays and by visually impaired people. This set is far from complete, the 32 x 32 are useable, they replace the most used icons. see: http://home.uwnet.nl/~vita/linux How to install an Icon Theme? Open the KDE-Menu an start the Control Center Click on "Look and Feel" and "Icons" Browse to the location of the new icon theme by clicking the small folder button Click on "Install New Theme" to add the new icons Click "Apply" Have fun! :-) Manually: Copy the tgz to ./kde/share/icons open it with: tar -xvzf bw-icons2002.tgz Now the icon theme will show up in the control center. This icon theme can also be downloaded via http://www.kde-look.org The icons are mostly 2D. They are designed for use on a white background. The black outline uses most space. After that I added some white to set them apart on a black background as well, and/or to make the hit area bigger. I did not use grey areas, a color swap will not be visible then. I kept them mostly white. This leaves the possibility to indicate the active state with a color swap. The unknown, txt and folder icons are templates which are used for many more icons, there were kept as simple as possible. The simplicity of the unknown and txt icons leaves much space, needed in B & W design. In the KDE color icons set the tar and tgz files have two triangles to indicate the balled together/compressed state. In this line I gave the compressed files two triangles, the packages four triangles. I kept in line with giving the Deb and RPM compressed file icons a character. The source icons, like in the color version, all have a character. I used a 28 size Clean font. Large: size 34 In some other cases I used the Clean font as well, size 16, which gives a better result than size 18. Scaling goes very well after indexing. (Gimp: image - indexed - black/white palette) If possible I took 2D elements from the KDE color set, like the monitors. Some of the icons were ported from the Kiddo icon set to black & white. The tarball includes helpfiles. These files contain re-useable elements from the icons, handy for designers. Ante Wessels vitanova softhome net
