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All the tools you need to create a custom icon

KIconEdit is an application with just one purpose - to create custom icons.

Features

Rectangle, circle and elipse tools, outline and filled
Rectangular and circular selection
Line and Freehand drawing
Colour picker, flood fill and eraser.
Can create template size or custom size icons
Reads and saves a wide range of bitmap formats
Rapid conversion to greyscale
Resize of icon is possible
Undo and redo on many functions.

Get it

You should first try installing by means of your distribution. If your distribution does not contain KIconEdit, here is how you can install it. This description is based on SUSE Linux 11.4:

open a console

make sure all supporting software is installed

yast -i libkde4-devel cmake subversion make gcc-c++

get the source code

svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/extragear/graphics

compile it

cd graphics
cmake . && make -j8 && make install/strip

as a test, start it

kiconedit

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 You should first try [[Special:myLanguage/Tutorials/Install_KDE_software|installing by means of your distribution]]. If your distribution does not contain '''KIconEdit''', here is how you can install it. This description is based on SUSE Linux 11.4:
 * [http://www.linuxintro.org/wiki/Open_a_console open a console]
 * make sure all supporting software is installed
 {{Input|1=yast -i libkde4-devel cmake subversion make gcc-c++}}
 * get the source code
 {{Input|1=svn co <nowiki>svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/extragear/graphics</nowiki>}}
 * compile it
 {{Input|1=cd graphics
 cmake . && make -j8 && make install/strip}}
 * as a test, start it
 {{Input|1=kiconedit}}