[geeks] fti to svg conversion

[Caleb Shay]

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Well, in a fit of boredom last night, I decided I was going to see just 
how close to my Irix boxes I could make my Linux box look.  I'm a Gnome 
user under Linux, but I've always loved the IMD on Irix.  I managed to 
find Gtk themes and windowmanager (metacity) themes that were pretty 
close approximations of the original, but all the icons I could find (I 
wanted to go all out) were just little png's of the Irix icons.  Irix 
has one pretty cool thing about its icons, and that is that they are all 
vector based, so they scale nicely.  32x32 pngs don't :).  So, since 
Nautilus (the file manager under gnome) supports vector icons via the 
svg format I decided to see if anybody had made svg versions of the Irix 
icons.  No luck.  So I decided to make my own fti2svg program.  It's 
coming along pretty nicely and I've managed to convert every stock Irix 
icon into svg format, minus the color, so they are all black white and 
gray.  Does anybody know any details on the colors in fti files?  I 
can't seem to figure out what they mean, since they all just seem to be 
random NEGATIVE numbers, ie -261, -183.  I'm guessing there is a palette 
somewhere that these match up to, but I don't know where to find it.  
Anyone have any info?

Cheers,

Caleb Shay
caleb at webninja.com

PS:  screen cap of the icon progress thus far is at 
http://www.webninja.com/fti2svg.png

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