This is to announce the release of ___ _____ / _ \|_ _| | |_| | | | ___ ___ _ __ ___ | _ | | | / __/ _ \| '_ \/ __| | | | |_| || (_| (_) | | | \__ \ |_| |_|_____\___\___/|_| |_|___/ __ __ _ ___ __ \ \ / /__ _ _ __(_)___ _ _ |_ ) / \ \ V / -_) '_(_-< / _ \ ' \ / / | () | \_/\___|_| /__/_\___/_||_| /___(_)__/ Anthony's Icon Library (version 2.0) This is a large collection of X window Icons for general use by the X community and WWW Servers. Few icon libraries are devoted to the X Window System and this is the reason this library was started in 1991. The icon images found inside this collection 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. It is also NOT a library of clipart. WHERE CAN FIND THE LIBRARY You can examine (and download) the actual library (between releases) through the world wide web at http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/icons/ Alternative sources of AIcons (last official release anyway) includes :- # No longer valid # FTP Distribution # Official Servers ftp://ftp.cs.indiana.edu/pub/AIcons/ # ftp://ftp.cit.gu.edu.au/pub/AIcons/ WWW Servers for the full AIcons Library Full Server Listing http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/icons/links.html 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/ (v1.6 BAD) Some Servers for the WWW Images Section Only Full Server Listing http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/icons/links_web.html 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 official release announcements ``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 Mirrors coordinators of the library are placed on another internal mailing list to recieve announcements about two weeks before the main announcement so that the mirrors can be upgraded. ORGANIZATION The library's organization is basically by intended usage. The icons are stored into 4 major categories, desc General descriptive icons for general use. (icons) appl Icons for use within specific applications. prog Icons for programming and other purposes. www Source Images for ``Anthony's WWW Images'' large Icons which are too large for the library (but included anyway). And a couple of minor categories docs General information files. support A collection of support scripts, config files, etc... www_images Supporting images for HTML files of the library MAJOR CHANGES 1/ Thanks to the continued development on the World Wide Web, a real flood of icons have become available, usually 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 is now forming its own major section of the library. This whole section is converted to GIF image format and forms Anthony's WWW Images (GIF format) http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/images/Images.html Download of WWW Images http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/images/Archives/WWW_Images.tar.gz Just the Button Images of this set http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/images/Archives/WWW_Images_Buttons.tar.gz Note, that in the AIcons library itself this section is in the source X Window image formats, mostly X Pixmap image format, and as such are not directly usable by Web users. 2/ The other major change is that I am now using a program called ``gifmap'' which creates imagemaped index files of all the images in the library for perusal by Web users. As part of this process the `list_icons' program has been depreciated and is no longer used by the collection. 3/ The ``desc/cl-32'' icon section containing icons of the same size as used on PC Computers and Macintosh Computers, has as been sub-catagorised due to the huge number of images in this section. 4/ The ``desc/cl-bgnd'' section of the library has also been re-organised into sub-directories to group background tiles which are suitable for backgrounds of documents (like those of the WWW) or those which only work as root window backgrounds on Windowed Displays. PROGRAMS TO USE WITH THIS LIBRARY 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 GifMap (Still in beta testing) NOTE: The XbmBrowser (UNIX X Windows program) 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 official PbmPlus package from Jef Poskanzer. But with the time he is taking (nearly three years now) I am not holding my breath. Thanks for your Attention. Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brisbane (Australia) had been Terra's Capital city for hundreds of years now, and its (space) port with long open approaches over the continental center and open Pacific, was the planets busiest. --- Dean Alan Foster, ``Orphan Star'' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PGP Public Key available -- finger -l anthony@lyrch.cit.gu.edu.au