Thinking recently it might be time to put this program I was working on, in the application menu and not invoke it all the time from the command line.
Which means I’d call up Icon-O-Matic and make some stupid icon for it. This is a skill that I clearly have not cultivated - neither the graphic design, nor the tool. Is there a process or maybe a tutorial or something that would really put the “o-matic” in Icon-O-Matic?
Not an artist myself, but you could start here maybe?
https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/applications/icon-o-matic.html
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Until we take over power and enable the return of BeOS-style bitmap icons (not saying “by force”, but …), you can use this workaround.
Or you can promise @zuMi a box of chocolate to make you an icon …
What a beautiful tutorial, language neutral even!
Great to have!
Thanks Gerasim
Look here too:
https://www.besly.de/haisly2.besly.de/index.php/painting/icon-o-matic/icon-o-matic-creating-a-simple-icon
https://www.besly.de/haisly2.besly.de/index.php/painting/icon-o-matic/how-to-add-a-icon-to-a-binary
https://www.besly.de/haisly2.besly.de/index.php/painting/icon-o-matic/icon-o-matic-tips-and-tricks
What’s the application? What would you like the icon to look like?
It’s just another incarnation of the email application I’ve been fooling around with for decades, so the last time I could bring myself to think about it, a rural style mailbox came to mind. In principle, it really doesn’t matter what, as long as it doesn’t look too much like some other application. The video brought out some features I don’t remember being aware of, so that will probably help a lot when I get started on it.
There is already an icon like that in the Haiku icon set.
Oh. Thanks. Well, I wasn’t terribly crazy about that idea anyway.
On the other hand … it would be but the work of a few minutes to change the colors. This incarnation is written in Rust, so we expect a red color scheme …
I’m not proud of it, but it will serve for a few days until I have a better idea.