To who might have control of Networking tray icon in Puppy

[april]

Thanks 46 icons =lotsa work
perhaps select each file and put on dropbox or someone like that might be better. I was going to try them but to cut and paste and save little bits with the right file names ,I have no idea =lotsa work

Don't expect you to do it either . Thanks anyway

[solo]

Working with these icons has its difficulties.

The xpm format allows for transparancy, which is good news, because in principle, this would mean that you could design an iconset which can be used in both a bright colored tray or a dark colored tray.

In practical terms however, this is a big challenge.

There is no partial transparancy in xpm for instance. A pixel is either totally transparant, or it is not.
So where I use these little input/output arrows which have a gradient that fades to transparancy, that is something I can only pull off because I used a predetermined color as my backround, instead of a transparant backround.

This means my connection tray iconset is very limited in its application in so much that it would only look good if the tray color is the same as the icon backround.

As an excersize, I made an attempt today to convert them in such a manner that it would acceptable in most dark colored trays, but I'm sorry to admit that the result looks quite miserable.

[solo]

Another aspect of xpm format transparancy, is that anti-aliasing is pretty much out of the question if you use a transparant backround.

In practical terms, this means your design is constrained to a very pixellated look, avoiding curved forms as much as possible.

But on the plus side, if you can pull it off, you get away with designing an iconset which looks good on any backround.

And since this seems like a nice challenge, I am going to dabble with it and keep you posted in this thread.

[april]

Goodo Ill watch out

[solo]

Okay, well, here it is then.

It worked, but then it didn't also, in a sense that yes, you can make an iconset which is visible in both a bright and a dark backround, but no, it will not look equally appealing, at least not from where I am sitting.

So I still ended up making two iconsets. One which looks better with a bright backround, and one which looks better with a dark one.
Mind you, they are still functionable the other way around.

There's a zipfile attached which containes a folder called Connectiontray_icons. In this folder there are two folders, one called Brightbackround and one called Darkbackround. You can copy the contents of one of these folders (which ever tickles your fancy) to the following location:

/usr/local/lib/X11/mini-icons/network_tray-xpm/

You might want to make a backup of your old icons first.

[solo]

Here's a preview of them btw

[april]

Thanks very much . Running them now.
Such fun !

[solo]

Glad to have been of service!

[solo]

Okay, the icons I made, just to be clear, are not suitable for the netmon_wce network monitor as designed by 01Micko, but rather for the old network_tray.

This is because the netmon_wce package uses svg icons instead of xpm, and only differentiates between wifi and non-wifi, but has the added icons which indicate wifi strenghth.

[solo]

Here's a 'new and improved' version of the network tray icons I made.

I decided to make the outline of the in/out arrows transparant, which makes a cleaner image, and brings it one step closer to the original intent, which was to design an iconset which would look good on both a dark and bright backround.

There would be a downside in so much that if you decided to make the color of your taskbar close to magenta or neon green, the arrows would dissapear into the backround. But let's be fair, if your style decisions concerning your desktop gravitate towards those types of color schemes, you have bigger problems than that.