KDE programs in Windows start menu

Dominik Stadler dstadler at ftisoft.at
Tue Apr 20 10:49:18 CEST 2004


Compiling png2ico yourself and moving the binary to /bin will work!

Dominik.


On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:53:12 +0200, Dominik Stadler wrote:

> 
> I think this is because the png2ico.exe is not compiled for cygwin if you
> download the binary available on the website. It dosn't understand the
> unix-file notation with /, but rather expects something like c:\...
> 
> I'm currently trying to compile png2icon on my own to see if this is the
> case.
> 
> Dominik.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 01:44:27 +0100, Alvyn Liang wrote:
> 
>> Sorry for the last post. I think I should provide how did I do. Maybe I
>> have just done wrong? I downloaded the png2ico and extracted the
>> executable into /bin
>> 
>> It works fine. This is the command response when I execute it on cygwin
>> console $ png2ico
>> png2ico 2002-12-08  (c) Matthias S. Benkmann USAGE: png2ico icofile
>> [--colors <num>] pngfile1 [pngfile2 ...]
>> 
>> Then I place the three files
>> kde3.cmd
>> kde3.sh
>> kdeshortcut
>> under my personal folder, /home/alvyn/kde_shortcut I executed kde3.sh
>> and found nothing happened, then i executed kdeshortcuts and the error
>> message came out... that's it.
>> 
>> thanks
>> 
>> Alvyn
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> Hi Chris
>>> 
>>> When I ran the kdeshortcuts it appeared:
>>> /opt/kde3/share/icons/crystalsvg/32x32/apps/catalogmanager.png: No such
>>> file or directory
>>> /opt/kde3/share/icons/crystalsvg/32x32/apps/cervisia.png: No such file
>>> or directory /opt/kde3/share/icons/crystalsvg/32x32/apps/kbabel.png: No
>>> such file or directory
>>> 
>>> I checked those folders and the filenames are correct. Donno why it
>>> cannot recognise... :-(
>>> 
>>> Alvyn
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> 
>>> > > You can download the script here:
>>> > > http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ccj00/kdeshortcuts.tar.bz2
>>> > Oops - I forgot to say you also need to download and compile png2ico
>>> > (if you want icons!):
>>> > http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/index.html
>>> >
>>> > Chris
>>> >
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