[IAEP] changing the xo icon

[Walter Bender]

I have been trying to reproduce your problem, but cannot seem to. I
did find a bug in the FLOSS manual chapter on modifying Sugar: the
word wrap for the SVG was creating a break between "&" and "fill" that
would cause the SVG to fail on ALL computers. When I fixed that, it
worked on the XO and my Ubuntu laptop. The only other thing I could
think of was that somehow the file permissions were wrong, so that the
SVG could not be opened. I experimented with removing read permission
on the file, but I did not get any icon in the Home View at all--a
different symptom than you describe. But in any case, from the
Terminal Activity, please run the command "ls -l
/usr/share/icons/sugar/scalable/device" and look at the file
permissions. They should be -rw-r--r--. If not, try chmod +r *.

Can you send your broken SVGs as attachments?

thanks,

-walter

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> curious. I'll look into it.
>
> -walter
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Bill Kerr <billkerr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar/ModifyingSugar
>>
>> I can't modify the xo icon with an svg file that I create outside of the xo
>> and load with a USB key.
>>
>> Although I can modify the xo icon with an svg file, eg. camera.svg that is
>> already in the folder /usr/share/icons/sugar/scalable/device
>>
>> I've tried different ways of making the svg file. Here are some of the files
>> that haven't worked:
>>
>> square.svg (this one made by starting from the generic template found at
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Icon_template.generic.svg)
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>>  <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN"
>> "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd"[
>>      <!ENTITY stroke_color "#666666">
>>      <!ENTITY fill_color "#FFFFFF">
>>  ]>
>>  <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="55" height="55">
>>      <rect x="5" y="5" width="45" height="45" stroke="&stroke_color;"
>> fill="&fill_color;" stroke-width="3.5"/>
>>  </svg>
>>
>>
>> sq2.svg (this one made by exporting the computer-xo icon and modifying)
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" ?><!DOCTYPE svg  PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN'
>> 'http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd' [
>>     <!ENTITY stroke_color "#010101">
>>     <!ENTITY fill_color "#FFFFFF">
>> ]><svg enable-background="new 0 0 55 55" height="55px" version="1.1"
>> viewBox="0 0 55 55" width="55px" x="0px" xml:space="preserve"
>> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
>> xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" y="0px">
>>      <rect x="5" y="5" width="45" height="45" stroke="&stroke_color;"
>> fill="&fill_color;" stroke-width="3.5"/>
>>  </svg>
>>
>> I can view these icons OK in firefox on another computer
>>
>> What happens on the xo is a blank space where the icon ought to be - but
>> when I place the mouse in that space the drop down xo menu does appear, as
>> though the icon is there but can't be seen
>>
>> Can anyone help with this?
>>
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>
>
>
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