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Working with other Linux Applications

Creating Icon and Taking Screen Shots

Creating Icon with KiconEdit

KIconEdit is designed to help create icons for KDE using the standard icon palette.

Starting KiconEdit

You can start KIconEdit from Applications-->Graphics-->KIconEdit or

You can start KIconEdit from Applications-->Graphics-->KIconEdit or by executing kiconedit from the shell.

KIconEdit Application Window

The Icon Editor window is separated in four areas: Main Toolbar, Tools toolbar, the Grid and Statusbar.

Main Toolbar

New

Create a new icon. If the current file has been modified you will be asked if you want to save the changes. After that a dialog will open where you can choose to create the icon from scratch or from a template.

Open

Open an existing icon file.

Save

Save the currently open icon.

Print

Print the icon.

Undo

Undo the last action

Redo

Redo the last action undone. If no actions have been undone, this action is disabled.

Cut

Cuts out the entire icon and put it onto the clipboard.

Copy

Copies the entire icon to the clipboard.

Paste

Paste the contents of the clipboard as a new image (if the clipboard contains a valid icon).

Zoom,

Zoom In, Zoom Out Zoom to predefined zoom factor.

Resize

Resize icon to width X height.

GrayScale

Gray scale the icon image. This may create colors not conformant to the KDE icon palette.

Show Grid

Toggle grid on/off. Tools Toolbar

Tools Toolbar

This toolbar contains the tools you can use to manipulate the icon.

Freehand

Draw free hand.

Color Picker

Doesn't change the icon but changes the current drawcolor to the color clicked on.

Rectangle

Draw a rectangle.

Filled Rectangle

Draw a filled rectangle.

Circle

Draw a circle.

Filled Circle

Draw a filled circle.

Ellipse

Draw an ellipse

Filled Ellipse

Draw a filled ellipse (almost the same thing as drawing a circle.)

Spray

Draws a randow dotted pattern like a spraycan.

Flood Fill

Fill an area with the current color.

Line

Draw a line.

Eraser (Transparent)

Draw transparent (invisible).

Rectangular Selection, Circular Selection

Select (mark) a part of the icon.

Grid

The grid is where you manipulate the icon contents.

Statusbar

The status bar keeps you informed of current operations. From left to right, it tells you the x,y coordinates of the pixel you are working on, the size of the current canvas, the zoom factor, and the current number of colors in the icon.

Working with KIconEdit

To create a new icon KIconEdit click on New button on Main Toolbar or select File-->New from the menu bar.

From Create New Icon wizard, select the type of icon you want to create and click on Next

Specify the size of Icon and click on Finish button.

Use tools from Tools toolbar to draw your icon.

Click on Save to save your icon.

Type the name of your icon and click on Save button to save.

This is the Icon we have just created.

Taking Screen Shots

They are two ways to capture on screen activity: first we can use Print Scrn from keyboard to capture screen activity and save it as an image or we can use other applications such as KsnapShot for screen capture.

ScreenShot with Print Screen

To take a Screen shot, you just need to press the Print Scrn button of your keyboard, and it will capture the activity going on the screen and prompt you to save the screen shot.