Rob Wright has been a discreet fire user for quite awhile, but only when he started using flame (now flint), did he think that his batch and action trees were hard to read -" everything looked the same (now where is that light?)". Rob wondered if it would be better if the buttons could be color-coded to indicate what type of process it was, or maybe use icons instead of just the hard-to-read type. . . A complete set of icons is provided so you can download and install a new set of icons for your Flame/Flint!

Added: September 17th 2005
Submitter: Rob Wright
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Rob Wright. I just wanted to make the flame icons easier. One of my colleagues at CNN (Peter Knudsen) made a couple of crazy icons and he inspired me. So I had to attack the entire set of icons. I wanted to make the gui not only a little bit cooler looking, but actually to make it more functional.

Anyway, it didn't really take too long. Its just a sgi file circle with matte that is 64 x 64. It took a total of two days to make them - just downtime between projects.

I am sure there are a few icons that I may have missed. I certainly would encourage anyone who would want to add to or change them.

Who knows, maybe we could have multiple-themed sets in the future?




This is an unsupported trick, it should work without any problems - but please backup your /menu/icons directory.

To install,

click to download the icon set

copy the /menu/icons directory in your home directory and
rename icons_old (in case you want the old set back!).

Copy the downloaded folder into /menu directory and enjoy.

NOTE:
added 11/13/2005 -
There are additional icon sets in an older tip here and in the forums here.