After a lot of time searching some friendly icons to be used in Dia and no results obtained, I decided to face this problem and generate my own icons collection.
I like Gnome Gorilla’s icons style very much, so I decided to convert most of them to Dia. I had to mix some icons to make a new in according its preposition.
I found out on Net the svg2shape.xslt to make the conversion, but many erros came up when I tried to convert an Inkscape plain SVG.
Problems associated with compability was seen. An example about is that a shape file doesn’t accept opacity. Many Gnome icons have opacity and they are constructed using a different structure to be in conformity with Dia. Another problem detected is that shape files don’t accept colors by their names. You can’t use black to describe a black color, only hexadecimals six digits are accepted.
I’ve written a PHP script to read the shape file created by the command xsltproc and make some modifications to correct them. In a future post I can explain better this and post the hard way to get this.
Here you can see a simple result of the conversion and adaptation:
Gnome icons schema to Dia
If you liked it, click here to make the icons download. To add this in your Dia you just need to follow the next step:
# cd /usr/share/dia
# cp PATH/rib-network.tar.gz .
# tar zxvf rib-network.tar.gz
If your Dia is started please close this and start it again. So in your combo list choice RIB-Network. Now you can be free to create your Network diagrams with a lot of colors and beauty. 🙂
