Inkscape-fr /chapter: Creating-Icons / INKSCAPE Inkscape is an excellent tool for creating icons. Generally speaking icons are required in different formats so that makes SVG an excellent format as it is a scalable graphics format. This means you can shrink or enlarge the graphic to the required size without losing any quality. This tutorial was made with Ubuntu, but works with any operating system supported by Inkscape. Create New Icon File First open Inkscape and to create a new file. A new blank file will then open with, in this example, a grid: The grid is a 32x32 block grid, the same size as many of the icons you will find on your computer. Save the File Before you start work it is a good idea to first save the file. This will pop open a dialog box. You can change the name of the file to anything to help you identify it (in the above example it is 'drawing.svg'). Using the Icon Preview Window View > Icon Preview... Start Work Now we will proceed to draw the icon. Lets start with making the background circle. Exporting to PNG
Imppao’s Weblog Inkscape. Draw Freely. Ubuntu: Make ALSA default instead of PulseAudio | How to PulseAudio has still problems with some applications and it always adds a little latency and that's the reason, why so many people still prefer ALSA. This howto shows you, how to remove PulseAudio, add alsa-mixer applet to the panel and associate hotkeys for volume change. 1. Remove PulseAudio This will uninstall PulseAudio, delete the configuration files and uninstall it's dependencies; gstreamer-10-pulseaudio, libpulse-browse0, libpeexdsp1, pulseaudio-esound-compat, pulseaudio-module-udev, pulseaudio-module-x11, pulseaudio-utils, rtkit and gnome-desktop (don't worry, it is dummy package): 2. PulseAudio removes volume applet, so you need new volume applet. Download alsamixer-applet: Extract all files for example into /usr/local/bin direcotry: Make all files executable (if they're not): If you want to use your keyboard's volume hotkeys, you have to set them in System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts. Name: ALSA Volume mute Command: /usr/local/bin/alsa_master_mute Files to download: