[Users] Larger icons (was: Re: Change Claws-mail icon?)

[blind Pete]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 23:47:04 +0200
Ricardo Mones <ricardo at mones.org> wrote:

Hi, 

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 06:17:26PM +1000, blind Pete wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 13:56:46 +0100
> > Jeremy Nicoll <jn.ml.clwm.729 at letterboxes.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 22 Sep 2017, at 13:51, Ricardo Mones wrote:
> > > > Hi Jeremy,
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 05:45:17PM +0100, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, 15 Sep 2017, at 16:46, Salvatore De Paolis wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > You might want to take a look at Claws Mail themes,
> > > > > > http://www.claws-mail.org/themes.php
> > > > > 
> > > > > Is there any option in Claws to plot all the icons larger -
> > > > > maybe double size?   Some of the standard set seem very small
> > > > > to me.
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, use a SVG theme, force scaling, disable automatic and set
> > > > the PPI value higher.
> > > 
> > > Are these things one sets within Claws, or would I need to find a
> > > set of SVG icons and then alter them using some sort of graphics
> > > editor?
> 
> Still not on themes page, but there's already some in the themes git
> repository:
> 
> http://git.claws-mail.org/?p=themes.git;a=commit;h=be46d8006891996bcd09fdb4b79d48c7aec30a4a

I am not the original poster. 

If I ever get around to compiling from source, I'll take a closer
look.  Somebody posted most of a HOWTO compile on Ubuntu recently, so
it might happen. 

> > Hi Jeremy, 
> > 
> > If you are still squinting at the screen, I put together a set of
> > icons that are basically a set of double size copy of the STW theme
> > with some tweaking to suit my taste after looking at the other
> > themes listed, especially Fresh Black.  I actually submitted it to
> > the CM team some years ago, but I guess that they weren't that
> > impressed.  It is in xpm format, rather than svg, maybe that was
> > why. 
> 
> You submitted it for a contest with a very specific target and some
> rules: http://www.claws-mail.org/theme-contest-2014.php
> 
> Your theme doesn't qualify for that target and doesn't obey the rules,
> nothing more and notheing less.
> 
> BTW, by the time the contest was launched SVG themes support was
> still a happy idea, if any. And XPM format was mandatory, that's not
> the rule which discarded your theme ;-)
> 
> My fault, among others, was not answering to you before, but I hope
> you can accept my sincere apologies for that.
> 
> best regards,

That is OK. 

I was expecting someone to say something like;
  "That is not quite finished.  
  It needs this, this, and this. 
  It doesn't need that."

What I have suits my purpose, screen resolution and eyesight, so it all
slipped down my priority list. 

One problem that I have just stumbled to is that I probably tar-ed up
the files in a directory, rather than the directory, and would have
lost the dot claws theme info file. 

Clicking on the link above, there are now AUTHORS and LICENSE files for
individual themes.  I don't remember seeing those before.  I tried
stuffing extra information into the fourth line of the .claws_themeinfo
file, it didn't seem to break anything. 

What I have done (so far?) is useful for someone with a fine pitch
screen, or cataracts, or both. 

-- 
testing
bP