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paolo321

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Registered: 2011-06-26

Posts: 121

mono icons for weather applet ?

Hi, I'd like to have monochrome icons for xfce weather applet.

Was thinking about manually substituting current ones with monochrome icons...
Started with weather icons from faenza-dark...
But noticed that using icons "almost white", suitable for dark panels, icons are almost not visible in the forecast window...

Is there some workaround?
Maybe I should give up and wait for somebody much more experienced to tweak the source code?

Last edited by paolo321 (2011-11-01 17:25:20)

paolo321

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Registered: 2011-06-26

Posts: 121

Re: mono icons for weather applet ?

Tried experimenting with monochrome icons from ubuntu-mono, humanity-dark or faenza.
Result is not nice, since the same icon is used for the dark panel and the forecast window.
BTW, I discovered that .svg images may be used, simply renaming them to .png

Probably the only way is to modify applet to load different icons, for example "liquid" should have a subdirectory for panel and a subdirectory for big images...

Posting this reply, as said before, in case someone wants to take a look at the source code... I'm definitely not able to do it, sorry

EDIT:
using ubuntu-mono icons scaled to 70% with inkscape is really good in the panel, and "tolerable" in the forecast window

Last edited by paolo321 (2011-11-05 10:08:05)