Onscreen Fundamentals
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Chapter 2. Onscreen Fundamentals

In this section will be briefly described the Icon Editor user interface.

The Icon Editor window is separated in four areas: main toolbar, tools toolbar, the grid and statusbar.

Main toolbar

New File

Create a new icon. If the current file has been modified you will be asked if you want to save the changes. After that a dialog will open where you can choose to create the icon from scratch or from a template.

Open...

Open an existing icon file.

Save

Save the currently open icon.

Print

Print the icon.

Undo

Undo the last action

Redo

Redo the last action undone. If no actions have been undone, this action is disabled.

Cut

Cuts out the entire icon and put it onto the clipboard.

Copy

Copies the entire icon to the clipboard.

Paste

Paste the contents of the clipboard as a new image (if the clipboard contains a valid icon).

Zoom factor, Zoom in, Zoom out

Zoom to predefined zoom factor.

Resize

Resize icon to width X height.

Gray scale

Gray scale the icon image. This may create colors not conformant to the KDE icon palette.

Show grid

Toggle grid on/off.

What's This

Clicking this icon, then clicking anywhere else in the window, will show a short tooltip describing the item you clicked on.

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