Use SVG icons from Ameixa LOS/CM icon pack

[conrad-heimbold]

@dkanada @ikocevski Some time ago I noticed that the Ameixa CM/LOS icon pack by Xphnx already has lots of SVG icons. Unfortunately, there are quite bloated (every icon more than 60 KB, of which only 2KB are needed); so you can't extract the relevant icon path easily. I spent some time on that (lots of steps necessary...) and I'm almost finished.

Please have a look on the SVG files in the attached ZIP file!

I finished simplifying the svg icons from Ameixa - my script worked for 499 out of 656 files. Have a look on the attached svg icons, which only consist of one path, nothing else.
You can create icons for us by

1. copy-pasting one of these onto a suitable rectangle/square/circle template from us
2. Resizing the svg path as necessary
3. Subtracting the svg path from the template.

You could also only take some inspiration from them, if you don't want to simply copy them.

[ghost]

I don't think we can automate this. Too many gimmicks here and there. So unclean. Tried making the FFUpdater. Besides, we should have our own style. A line or two makes a world of a difference.

[conrad-heimbold]

Hi, I managed to finish - for 499 out of 656 svg icons, my script worked!!!. The attached 499 svg icons only consist of one path, nothing else: ameixa_optim_finished.zip

To get more icons for us..

1. Copy-Paste one of the attached SVG files onto a suitable template from us
   (CTRL+A CTRL+C CTRL+V)
2. Resize it to a suitable size.
3. Subtract the path from the template (CTRL+MINUS)

=> One more icon finished!
This takes only around 1 minute per icon, so we should get these icons finished very fast.

[ghost]

Well, good job. I guess some of these will be useful.

[dkanada]

Woah, mind sharing that script? It sounds interesting. I am on vacation for a while but when I have time I will take a look at these.

[conrad-heimbold]

@dkanada I developed that script by trial-and-error, in many steps and in a very customized version just for these specific files and without saving the commands in a file (except of ~/.bash_history). So getting the commands again might be difficult... Let's see if I can find them again in my ~/.bash_history ...

[conrad-heimbold]

In the script, I used roundabout the following:

• svgo with lots of options (--enable=... )
• sed "delete all elements having the attribute fill=none"
• tr "delete all [:space:]"
• sed "delete everything between <defs> and </defs>"
• sed "delete first group (everything between <g> and </g>) that does not have the attribute:

transform="translate(0 -1025)"

(this is specific for the group of objects that we need)

• after deleting the first group: delete the transform="translate(0 -1025)" attribute from the last group
• when only one group with transform="translate(0 -1025)" is left: ungroup the objects inside the group, by deleting the start (<g>) and end (</g>) tag, but nothing in between

[conrad-heimbold]

I think you should be able to re-construct a similarly useful script with these tips. My script was very bad (I don't know how to use awk / perl / python, which would have been a better choice than sed).