Icons

From FreeMind

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Icons in the code

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Sources of free icons

FreeMind uses (a) tool icons used in the toolbars, and (b) icons used in nodes. Especially for the icons used in nodes, a good comprehensive source of free icons is needed. FreeMind uses PNG icons, in the size of 16 x 16. Nowadays many icons are drawn in SVG vector format first, and converted to 16 x 16 bitmap images afterwards.

Ideally, it would not be the task of FreeMind team to draw icons; this task should be outsourced instead. Whether this is a realistic assumption remains to be seen.

Some links on the sources of free icons follow.

  • Icon Pack (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/Icon%20pack%20for%20Freemind.zip) from Christopher Belliard. Thanks!
  • Icons at kde-look (http://www.kde-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=22x27)
  • Icons at gnome-look (http://www.gnome-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=120)
  • Crystal icons (http://www.everaldo.com/crystal/) — an icon set often used in KDE desktop environment
  • Tango Desktop Project (http://tango-project.org/Tango_Desktop_Project) — an icon library for KDE and Gnome, licenced under Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike
  • Silk icons (http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/) — 1000 icons licenced under Creative Commons attribution license
  • Open Clip Art Library (http://www.openclipart.org/) — a library used for some Mediawiki icons, mostly not suitable as a source of icons but rather as of clipart
  • Open Clipart at Wikimedia commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:PD_OpenClipart)


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