[GRASSLIST:9547] Re: icons

[Michael Barton]

Hamish,

Thanks for doing this. I've wanted to have something like this since GRASS
5.x. It is very nice for people to be able to share these.

A thought I've had in talking with Benjamin Ducke, who is working on the
GRASS Extension Manager.

Custom extensions and icons located in the $GISBASE directory structure risk
getting overwritten, especially if you are installing binaries.

What about putting such things in a GRASS_custom directory within a user's
home directory? The location of a GRASS_custom directory could be specified
in the .grassrc6 file.

Michael
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> From: Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>
> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:40:44 +1300
> To: <michael at quanta.org.za>
> Cc: <GRASSLIST at baylor.edu>
> Subject: [GRASSLIST:9492] Re: icons
> 
>> While the icons that come with installationare functional every user
>> wanting  anything more siphisticated has to design it themselves. So,
>> although I am no  artist, I thought I would post these icons in the
>> hope that someone would  find them useful.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have just added a spot on the wiki for user contributed symbols to go:
> 
> http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/twiki/bin/view/GRASS/IconSymbols
> 
> Linked from the GRASS 6 add-ons page. Just make yourself a wiki account
> and go for it!
> 
> 
>> To use them copy them to the /usr/local/grassXXXX/etc/symbol/custom
>> directory.
> 
> Maybe easier:
>   $GISBASE/etc/symbol/custom/
> 
> 
> 
> Also as a general interest item, I found some hidden wiki-spam lurking
> at the bottom of the main wiki page. Interesting as this parasite code
> was designed to be non-visible to the reader.. survival tactics.
> 
> 
> [shop  text/plain (460 bytes)]
> VERSION 1.0
> BOX -1 -1 1 1
> END
> POLYGON
>   RING
>     LINE
> ...
> 
> Note the "END" is not needed after the BOX instruction. That doesn't draw
> a box, it sets up the bounding box which is used for icon scaling.
> 
> 
> 
> Hamish