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Conky Theme
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:32:05 GMT
The fancy transparent system monitor dodah that has replaced a few old dockapps for me, Conky is itself an updated decedent of Torsmo.
I've recently updated my theme/config with more information and colours to match my other themes.
Remember to edit the conkyrc file to point to your own mail spool (or just) delete that line, it's currently set to /var/spool/mail/gav .
The volume detection requires two simple scripts, save these in your ~/bin or wherever you like to store scripts.
vol-now-mas
vol-now-pcm
Conky Theme
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:23:53 GMT
An updated confihg file for my favouries system monitor, Conky.
More WiFi information added, email checking, system temp and volume settings now displayed.
Also updated the look to fit in with my other system themes.
To use this theme, either download the file conkyrc and save it as .conkyrc in your home directory to use this exact setup, or open the file and copy the parts you like to your own conkyrc.
DejaVu Font
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:05:05 GMT
Jak was complaining about some of the text on the site being difficult to read on his Windows machine.
As best as I can tell without looking at it, it was down to the default font used on the site, "DejaVu Sans Condensed" not being installed on his machine, and the default Windows sans-serif font, possibly Arial, being a bit unclear.
So as a two part fix, I've added another alternate font, "Verdana", from the MS Core Fonts for the Web. It doesn't look too bad, is shipped with Windows and Mac and is available for most Linux distros.
Part two of the fix, provide a link to download the correct font.
They are free as in beer and they look nice.
Another new icon, this time for Doctor Who News
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:01:38 GMT
A new Doctor Who news icon, replacing the slightly obscure Gallifreyan Clock with a much more recognisable police box.
This time it's based upon a photograph released as Creative Commons by Zir. Details and proper credit information here.
The licence terms ask for a credit to zir.com, but that doesn't seem to be a current website. So I guess the original image is copyright to the former owners of zir.com. Who can now be found on Wikipedia here.
New Politics Icon
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:52:02 GMT
Built from two bits of public domain clip-art, a very simple icon for Politics news.
Javascript Icon
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:43:09 GMT
Yet another new icon, this time it's for Javascript news. The icon itself is a combination of the web and code icons I've set up here, recoloured a distincitve red to help it stand out.
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It's built partly from the Deer Park Globe.
So once again as per the licence, this edit remains available to anyone to use under the LGPL, GPL or MPL licences. Details here.
It also uses parts of this public domain Cogs artwork.
Yet another new Icon, Themes
Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:28:33 GMT
Another new Icon, this time one for themes, icons and other little art projects.
It's simply a window in my usual desktop theme.
For the smaller versions, instead of just a rescale I've also reduced the space within the window, or increased the relative size of the borders if you look at it the other way, to make the icon clearer at smallers sizes.
New Icon for Web News
Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:51:22 GMT
As I'm on a new icons roll, here is my new Web code and news icon, based on the famous GPL'ed Deer Park Globe.
As per the licence, my edit remains available to anyone to use under the LGPL, GPL or MPL licences. See here for details.
Code News Icon
Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:05:23 GMT
Following on my new icons kick, while I'm feeling rough still. This time a new icon for the general topic of Code. That is source code, scripts, programs and the like, not secret codes, cyphers and cryptography.
Nice and simple, I wanted gears or cogs. So back to Wikimedia Commons to look for some public domain cogs.
Image:Cog-scripted-svg.svgPerfect.
And so, we get these.
Perl Icon
Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:55:08 GMT
I've been trying to fine-grain the subject icons on the site recently, with a view to later creating a way of sorting posts by subject. This is a way off yet and shouldn't be too hard to code once I get around to it.
Back closer to the topic, I wanted to add icons for the different kinds of code I write, those being mostly Perl and Javascript. Thinking this would be simplest, I started with Perl.
The obvious thing was to use the Camel.
Well, no, it turns out that the use of the Camel, in reference to Perl is the IP of O'Reilly, who publish The Camel Book, one of the standard texts on Perl.
O'Reilly have published some, well, overly strict guidelines on the use and formatting of the Camel logo here.
Usage Guidelines for the Programming Republic of Perl Logo
The part that makes this most useless to me, is the fact I can't resize it or colour it to match my site.
The fact I have to make any use of it a link back to perl.com doesn't help either.
The other known icon for Perl is the Onion, this however is the IP of The Perl Foundation. They also have a page of rules governing the use of the Onion.
Similar guidelines here, requiring that the logo link back to perl.org this time.
Which is a shame, as it basically means I can't use either.
So, I've been out and looked for an image I can work with, that doesn't infringe on the logos, icons, trademarks or any other kind of IP of either O'Reilly or The Perl Foundation, but still suggests Perl to me and others.
Wikimedia Commons to the rescue, a search for camels found me this public domain image of a Camel Skeleton.
It is public domain and very clearly not the O'Reilly Camel. Due to it's skeletal nature.
So, the Bare Bones icon. For my simple Perl coding projects.
New Roleplay Icon
Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:53:33 GMT
As I liked the new gaming icon so much, also because I'm ill in bed and bored, here is a new icon for Roleplay news.
I started with a clearer photo of a d10.
Some GIMPing later I had these. Some crop, contrast, brightness, colourise, and background removal later.
New Icon for Gaming News
Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:07:33 GMT
A bit of gimping has come up with a new gaming news icon. The old Inquisitor has been replaced with a D6. It just seems more in theme to me, following on from the D10 I use for Roleplay stuff.
It all started with a photo of a D6 I took on the painting table.
A quick flick of the GIMP and we get these.
A D6, because most tabletop games are based on them, while roleplay games more commonly use weird shapes.
Background Patterns
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:54:36 GMT
A bit of playing about with the GIMP again, some simple recolours of the old green background image.
New Background Pattern
Sat, 17 May 2008 20:20:13 GMT
Playing about with the GIMP, came up with this.
Generated by the Land script, then played about with to soften and dull it down.
New Smiley for the LAF
Fri, 16 May 2008 00:28:16 GMT
Something I quickly GIMPed up for the Lead Adventure Forum, Wirelizard asked for a drooling on the keyboard in envy face, so I took a couple of the existing smiley faces and mashed them together.
Link to the original thread included here:
The Lead Adventure Forum
Topic: Richard Houston Tramp Steamer
Tiki! Tiki! Tiki!
Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:24:39 GMT
Just some of our Tiki Mugs. Also a new icon for a new "Booze" category.
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