If I create a new menu entry, how do I create an icon for it?
Thanks, Lisi
On 12/07/2015 01:58 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
If I create a new menu entry, how do I create an icon for it?
You mean select an icon? Click the big icon symbol to the right of Name 7 Description in the TDE Menu Editor. If you want to actually create an icon image, any graphic editor should work.
On Monday 07 December 2015 22:11:24 Dan Youngquist wrote:
On 12/07/2015 01:58 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
If I create a new menu entry, how do I create an icon for it?
You mean select an icon? Click the big icon symbol to the right of Name 7 Description in the TDE Menu Editor. If you want to actually create an icon image, any graphic editor should work.
Thanks for that, Dan. I'm sorry - I am either expressing myself very badly, or being very thick or both. I have also not given enough information. That usually happens when I try to be succinct.
TDE 3.5.13.2 on Debian Wheezy.
Gmail refused to accept Icedove for IMAP on the grounds that it wasn't secure enough. So I downloaded Thunderbird. I was able to set up Gmail IMAP successfully. But there was no mouse-accessible way of launching it.
I managed to get an icon shortcut on the Desktop, then turned my attention to getting it in the menu. kappfinder didn't find it. So I created an entry in the menu with the Menu Editor. But I can find no way of putting an icon beside the entry.
This is a dry run for TDE 14 on Wheezy, so the problems and solutions might not be the same anyway. But I would like to complete the dry run.
And the only way I can find to get at the menu editor is to add an icon to the panel and right click on it - very tedious. :-( Is there a better way? If so, what?
Thanks, again, Lisi
On 12/07/2015 03:10 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
And the only way I can find to get at the menu editor is to add an icon to the panel and right click on it - very tedious. :-( Is there a better way? If so, what?
It should be on the Settings menu. Or you can right-click on any menu item and select Edit Item (or Edit Menu).
On Tuesday 08 December 2015 01:30:04 Dan Youngquist wrote:
On 12/07/2015 03:10 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
And the only way I can find to get at the menu editor is to add an icon to the panel and right click on it - very tedious. :-( Is there a better way? If so, what?
It should be on the Settings menu. Or you can right-click on any menu item and select Edit Item (or Edit Menu).
Thanks!! I could have sworn that I had looked in the Settings menu, several times, but it is indeed there. Right click does not give Edit Menu, just edit item.
Lisi
On Tuesday 08 December 2015 09:24:37 Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Tuesday 08 December 2015 01:30:04 Dan Youngquist wrote:
On 12/07/2015 03:10 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
And the only way I can find to get at the menu editor is to add an icon to the panel and right click on it - very tedious. :-( Is there a better way? If so, what?
It should be on the Settings menu. Or you can right-click on any menu item and select Edit Item (or Edit Menu).
Thanks!! I could have sworn that I had looked in the Settings menu, several times, but it is indeed there. Right click does not give Edit Menu, just edit item.
But I still haven't managed to add an icon to the new menu entry. It's odd that the Thunderbird tarball did not create a menu item with an icon. :-/
Lisi
On Tuesday 08 December 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote:
It should be on the Settings menu. Or you can right-click on any menu item and select Edit Item (or Edit Menu).
Thanks!! I could have sworn that I had looked in the Settings menu, several times, but it is indeed there. Right click does not give Edit Menu, just edit item. But I still haven't managed to add an icon to the new menu entry. It's odd that the Thunderbird tarball did not create a menu item with an icon. :-/
I just tested it by myself. I find some strange behavior. If you press the 'edit item' entry you are in the TDE Menu Editor. There is a a little square on the right upper side of the window. If you press it, the Select Icon menu appears. What now is strange that I can chose some icons that work (I really get a new icon in the menu) but for other icons I chose, nothing changes.
Maybe test a few of those icons available to see if it is the same problem.
Gerhard
On Tuesday 08 December 2015 09:44:38 Gerhard Zintel wrote:
On Tuesday 08 December 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote:
It should be on the Settings menu. Or you can right-click on any menu item and select Edit Item (or Edit Menu).
Thanks!! I could have sworn that I had looked in the Settings menu, several times, but it is indeed there. Right click does not give Edit Menu, just edit item. But I still haven't managed to add an icon to the new menu entry. It's odd that the Thunderbird tarball did not create a menu item with an icon. :-/
I just tested it by myself. I find some strange behavior. If you press the 'edit item' entry you are in the TDE Menu Editor. There is a a little square on the right upper side of the window. If you press it, the Select Icon menu appears. What now is strange that I can chose some icons that work (I really get a new icon in the menu) but for other icons I chose, nothing changes.
Maybe test a few of those icons available to see if it is the same problem.
Thank you, Gerhard! That worked and the Thunderbird entry now has an icon. I think I'll now leave well alone! So I haven't worked through the other icons to watch some of them failing.
Oh, I can't resist it. But later. I'll report back again.
Lisi
On Tuesday 08 December 2015 09:52:09 Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Tuesday 08 December 2015 09:44:38 Gerhard Zintel wrote:
On Tuesday 08 December 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote:
It should be on the Settings menu. Or you can right-click on any menu item and select Edit Item (or Edit Menu).
Thanks!! I could have sworn that I had looked in the Settings menu, several times, but it is indeed there. Right click does not give Edit Menu, just edit item. But I still haven't managed to add an icon to the new menu entry. It's odd that the Thunderbird tarball did not create a menu item with an icon.
:-/
I just tested it by myself. I find some strange behavior. If you press the 'edit item' entry you are in the TDE Menu Editor. There is a a little square on the right upper side of the window. If you press it, the Select Icon menu appears. What now is strange that I can chose some icons that work (I really get a new icon in the menu) but for other icons I chose, nothing changes.
Maybe test a few of those icons available to see if it is the same problem.
Thank you, Gerhard! That worked and the Thunderbird entry now has an icon. I think I'll now leave well alone! So I haven't worked through the other icons to watch some of them failing.
Oh, I can't resist it. But later. I'll report back again.
It let me have everything except "mimetypes", any attempt to select which, made it change back from whatever it was to a general blank.
I was going in and out of the one I actually wanted, because I kept changing my mind and trying something else. This was mildly tedious because when I clicked on "other icons" some directory I didn't want came up, and it meant "browsing" to my Downloads folder and searching for the icon I wanted all through the rather large (fortunately alphabetical) folder.
Then the last time I did it, I clicked on "other icons" - and was immediately offered five only, including the one I wanted, no navigating at all. They turned out, on further examination, to be the only 5 .png files in my Downloads folder. Bizarre, or what??? Not that I am complaining! I don't mind my system being inexplicably intelligent. I only mind when it is unaccountably stupid. ;-)
Thanks for the help.
Lisi
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