Last modified on 15^th February 1999

The icons on this page originally started out as an attempt to reduce the number of colours that KDE was grabbing on my 8 bit display, and to increase the number of file type icons avaliable in the KFM file manager.

These days KDE comes with plenty of icons all using a limited pallete of colours, many of which were based on designs drawn by myself. Personally I don't like these new KDE icons, in particular the yellow wash given to the filetype icons, and the cyan cogs.

I continue to use the icons which I originally drew, and have continued to tinker with them and add new ones ocasionaly, sometimes these are heavly based around the new KDE icons. Currently the icons on this page use a limited pallete of 34 colours, less than icons distributed with KDE, and as an added bonus all the colours are drawn from the 6x6x6 RGB cube used by Netscape and WordPerfect amoung others.

Currently there are no mini-sized (16x16 pixels) versions of these icons avaliable to download, though I have drawn a few. I have also drawn large (48x48 pixels) versions of a few of these icons for those lucky enough to be running high resolution displays on large monitors though they are not included here either. I have included some replacement toolbar icons which use the same 34 colour palete though you can't see them on the web page.

I distribute these icons under the GNU Library license as the XPM format allows for icons to be included in source code and hence compiled into a program, and I don't wish to prevent this by using the more restrictive GNU General Public license.

Filetype Icons

Directory	Directory user unable to enter	Trash	Full Trash	Placed over other icons to signify a link	Placed over other icons to signify readonly
Executable	Object file/Java Class file	Makefile	C/C++ source file	C/C++ header file	Assembler Source
lex/flex source	Yacc/Bison source source	Java source	Fortran source	Pascal source	Meta Object Compiler files
??? source	Tar or compessed files	HTML file	Digitized Sound file	Midi file	Image file
Video files	PostScript file	PDF file	Text file	README file	Unknown file
FTP URL	Info files	WWW URL	Pipe	Block Device	Character Device
Socket	Font files	TeX/LaTeX files	DVI files	MetaFont files	GF font files
PK font files	Documents (ie. RTF, LyX)	Man page	Application Resource file	WordPerfect file	RPM package file
Xfig drawing	Framemaker document	Diff file	SPICE file	Log file	For images that cannot be loaded in HTML
Mount 3.5" Floppy	Unmount 3.5" Floppy	Mount 5.25" Floppy	Unmount 5.25" Floppy	Mount Zip drive	Unmount Zip drive
Mount CDROM drive	Unmount CDROM drive	Mount Hard Drive/Partition	Unmount Hard Drive/Partition	Closed folder in Tree view	Open folder in Tree view

Overlayed icons

There have been previous requests to see the link and readonly icons actually over a file so here they are over the basic file icon in all three possible combinations. Please note that at the moment KFM does not support this feature due to limitations in the khmtl widget.

Application Icons

Terminal emulator	Usenet reader	Email reader	Printer	Fax	Modem
Calculator	Cardfile	DVI viewer	Ghostscript viewer	Gopher	Paint
DOS Emulator	Sun's Wabi	Screensaver	Internationalzation	Clipboard	WordPerfect
Applix	Image Viewer	Help	Xv	Netscape Navigator 4.x	Kedit
Khexedit	Kminesweeper	Knotes	Kpoker	Tower Machine

Kool Panel Icons

Launch Menu	Window List	KFM Home

KFM animated logo

The original animated logo used in KFM II consumed a large number of colours (over one hundred) and on an 8bpp display meant that other applications could not get the colours they wanted. The animation was also rather uninspiring. After a bit of thought I decided that a single gear spinning would make a good animation that need not use large numbers of colours. I also felt that it fitted in well with the rest of the KDE enviroment with a single gear being used for executable files and two gears being used as the launch icon by kpanel at the time, though this has since changed.

A copy of the XPM files making up the logo can be downloaded from here. I have included a copy of the animation as an animated gif below, you need a recent version of KFM to view the animation.

Notes

Your browser might well make a mess of the colours if it dithers them (Netscape will if it can't get all 216 colours of the 6x6x6 RGB cube) so you can download all the icons in XPM format as a gziped tar file from here, and you can view them with xbmbrowser, or use them for kfm. If you unpack the tar file in $(KDEDIR)/share it will overwrite all the existing icons with these. You can then restart kfm and kpanel to use the new icons.