[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Modified .desktop files, new icons (Was: Re: tuxtype 1.7.4 uploaded to debian)

David Bruce davidstuartbruce at gmail.com
Tue Jun 2 13:02:45 UTC 2009


Hi Loïc,

> I noticed you put a SUSE-specific string in tuxmath.desktop. Since the only
> thing that would prevent Ubuntu from syncing straight from Debian (once they
> start using your .desktop files and icons of course) would be an
> Ubuntu-specific string in both tuxtype.desktop and tuxmath.desktop, would it
> be possible for you to add these string to them ?
> For tuxtype:
> X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=tuxtype

Sure - I only started to learn about .desktop files a few months ago
when I investigated the opensuse build service - tuxmath.desktop was
taken from what the previous opensuse packager had written for
tuxmath, and likewise for tuxtype.


> I attached the modified files + some French translations.
>
> Since you have a new .svg icon for tuxmath, but not all types (.xpm, .ico,
> etc...) reflect this, I took the liberty to convert it to all formats you
> have in data/images/icons, so they all reflect the change. They're attached
> to this email. I chose 48x48 because it's the Freedesktop standard, for
> Windows and OSX I'm not sure. They're converted with Inkscape (PNG) GIMP
> (ICO) and http://iconverticons.com/ (ICNS, HQX) for those that I couldn't
> find a way to convert from Linux.
>
> I've also modified the tuxmath .svg icon for tuxtype and done the same
> conversions.

Thanks a ton - I'll put all the updated files into svn.

David



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