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by vovchik
Fri Dec 24, 2021 1:03 pm
Forum: UbuntuDogs
Topic: Happy Holidays
Replies: 12
Views: 2188

Re: Happy Holidays

And my greetings to all puppians, too.

Thanks for all your work.

Vovchik

by vovchik
Thu Jan 28, 2021 2:14 pm
Forum: Backgrounds
Topic: Puppylogos as svg
Replies: 9
Views: 1406

Re: Puppylogos as svg

Dear Fred, I use potrace, but within a script, the most essential bit of which is: convert "$infile" -trim pnm:- | potrace -s -O 1 -u 1 -o "$newfile" The command-line program "convert: is part of imagemagick. It will convert the png to pnm, which is piped into potrace. Potra...
by vovchik
Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:11 am
Forum: Backgrounds
Topic: Puppylogos as svg
Replies: 9
Views: 1406

Re: Puppylogos as svg

Dear Fred, Thanks. I see that the online service just places an image wrapper around the original png after doing a base64 encoding of the binary data. This means that, while the svgs will scale up, there will be perceptible definition loss at higher magnifications, since none of the elements have a...
by vovchik
Wed Jan 27, 2021 10:56 pm
Forum: Backgrounds
Topic: Puppylogos as svg
Replies: 9
Views: 1406

Re: Puppylogos as svg

Dear dellus,

Here is a tiny svg I made using potrace. I hope you can use it. Unpack the archive and you'll find the svg.

With kind regards,
vovchik

by vovchik
Thu Aug 20, 2020 9:06 am
Forum: Utilities
Topic: Screen Brightness Slider
Replies: 21
Views: 4787

Re: Screen Brightness Slider

Dear Mike, How about this??? With kind regards, vovchik PS. I didn't use a a graphic editor - just geany - and did it "by hand". SVG syntax is pretty simple. Technosaurus had posted quite a few useful examples on the old forum. Just have a look and you will get how to create SVGs quickly. ...
by vovchik
Wed Aug 19, 2020 10:54 pm
Forum: Utilities
Topic: Screen Brightness Slider
Replies: 21
Views: 4787

Re: Screen Brightness Slider

Dear Fred and Mike,

Thanks. What about this svg as an icon (smaller than the png)?

With kind regards,
vovchik
by vovchik
Sun Aug 09, 2020 10:06 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: What is the "Lib" structure?
Replies: 2
Views: 294

Re: "Lib" structure ??

Dear greengeek, Normal shared libraries in Linux are elf binaries (.so), usually written in c or c++ and compiled, but without the usual "main" bit. They generaly consist of a collection functions that will be called by external programs. In order to use them, you need to tell the program ...
by vovchik
Thu Jul 23, 2020 2:32 pm
Forum: Forum Organization & Structure Council
Topic: Prosilver Dark Edition Testing
Replies: 39
Views: 1552

Re: Prosilver Dark Edition Testing

Impossible for me to read - I mean in that dark style. The standard theme was better on my devices.
by vovchik
Sun Jul 12, 2020 10:01 pm
Forum: Users
Topic: Murga-Linux - "Under maintenance" (11th Jul 2020) - Signs of life.....or the beginning of "the end"?
Replies: 60
Views: 6916

Re: Murga-Linux - "Under maintenance" (11th Jul 2020) - Signs of life.....or the beginning of "the end"?

I also hope it is not the same John Murga. John has not only hosted the forum all these years but also contributed code (murgaLua). I do hope he is OK.

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