This is to announce the release of ___ _____ / _ \|_ _| | |_| | | | ___ ___ _ __ ___ | _ | | | / __/ _ \| '_ \/ __| | | | |_| || (_| (_) | | | \__ \ |_| |_|_____\___\___/|_| |_|___/ _ _ ___ __ _____ _ _ __(_)___ _ _ / | ( _ ) \ V / -_) '_(_-< / _ \ ' \ | |_/ _ \ \_/\___|_| /__/_\___/_||_| |_(_)___/ Anthony's Icon Library (version 1.8) This is a large collection of X window Icons for general use by the X comunity and WWW Servers. These are small (generally less than 100 by 100 pixel across) images that can be used for * Program icons for general use by window managers * Buttons / Widgets / Gadgets in X window programs * Document types for a desktop program (like xdtm) * World Wide Web; buttons, indicators, lines, etc. * walls, landscapes, space ships, and other objects for games This collection does NOT contain any `large' pictures, though smaller root window tile patterns are present. Nor does it contain `junky' icon images you often find in other libraries. The library has been pre-sorted into various catagories of size, style and usage which is also different to many `grab-bag' style icon libraries in the world. These features is what makes this collection different to other icon collections, and judging by comments recieved, well liked by users of the library. WHERE CAN FIND THE LIBRARY You can examine (and download) the actual library (between versions) through the world wide web at http://www.sct.gu.edu.au/~anthony/icons/ Alturnative sources of AIcons (last offical release) includes :- FTP Distribution Offical Servers ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/AIcons/ WWW Servers for the full AIcons Library BsdI Server http://bsdi.com/icons/AIcons/ German Server http://www.hlt.uni-duisburg.de/AIcons/ French Server http://www.ircam.fr/images/archives Netspace Server http://www.netspace.org/icons/AIcons/ Servers for the WWW Images Section Only Central Server http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/images/Images.html France http://www.lirmm.fr/bib-icons/ Italian http://www.vol.it/MIRROR/EN/images/ Troubador Systems http://troubador.com/gifs/images/Images.html There is also a couple of AIcons Mailing Lists you can now subscribe to by mailing majordomo@cit.gu.edu.au with either the lines ``subscribe aicons'' for the AIcons Discussion list or for just the offical release announcments ``subscribe aicons-announce'' aicons@cit.gu.edu.au General Discussion (including Announcements) aicons-announce@cit.gu.edu.au Announcement about new AIcon Library Releases majordomo@cit.gu.edu.au Mailing List Server for (Un)Subscriptions ORGANIZATION The library's organization is basically by intended usage. The icons are stored into 3 major catagories, desc General descriptive icons for general use. (icons) appl Icons for use within specific applications. prog Icons for programing and other purposes. And a couple of minor catagories docs General information files. large Icons which are too large for the library (but included). support A collection of support scripts, config files, etc... MAJOR CHANGES Thanks to the continued development on the World Wide Web, a real flood of icons have become available, usally one or two icons from numerous sites around the globe. All icons downloaded are re-colored to fit the standard color table used by the library and probably edited a small amount. As part of this the WWW area ``appl/www'' has also grown comsiderably. The icons stored in this section are in X pixmap format, which most WWW browsers can read. The large growth of the section has also forced it to split into a number of sub-directories of icon types. WebMasters are urged however to convert these icons to the GIF format for their own http servers OR download the latest set of pre-converted images from ftp://ftp.cit.gu.edu.au/pub/AIcons/WWW_Images.tar.gz NEW SECTIONS TO LIBRARY Also associtated with the World Wide Web is a set of mathematical symbols, super/subscrips and greek alphabet created by Karen Strom. These are normally converted into the GIF format and installed into a special WWW images directory "/maths" for use within mathematical documents converted to HTML from LaTeX. Also the section ``prog/bits'' for Bits and Pieces of Icons has been divided into two new sections ``prog/bw-bits'' and ``prog/cl-bits'' for Black and White, and Color Bits 'n' Pieces respectively. OTHER PROGRAMS The following programs and packages are recommended by me to make this icon library more enjoyable. X Pixmap Library ftp://koala.inria.fr/pub/xpm XbmBrowser 5.1 ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/xbmbrowser5.1.tar.gz PbmPlus (netpbm) ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/netpbm-1mar1994.p1.tar.gz CTwm ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/window_managers/ctwm-3.3.tar.Z Xv 3.10a ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/xv Xv Xpm Patch ftp://koala.inria.fr/pub/xpm/xvxpm.c XLoadImage ftp://ftp.x.org/R5contrib/xloadimage.4.1.tar.gz NOTE: the new release of XbmBrowser which is a must for viewing the AIcons library as a whole. Without this program this library would probably just not exist. I am also eagerly awaiting the arrival of the offical PbmPlus package from Jef Poskanzer. But with the time he is taking (nearly two years now) I am not holding my breath. Thanks for your Attention. Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) http://www.sct.gu.edu.au/~anthony/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I always figured that if I ever stopped learning, it would either mean that I had closed my mind, or that I was dead. -- Robert Asprin ``Myth-nomers and Im-pervections'' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PGP Public Key available -- finger -l anthony@lyrch.cit.gu.edu.au