KIconEdit

All the tools you need to create a custom icon

KIconEdit is an application with just one purpose - to create custom icons.

Features

• Rectangle, circle and elipse tools, outline and filled
• Rectangular and circular selection
• Line and Freehand drawing
• Colour picker, flood fill and eraser.
• Can create template size or custom size icons
• Reads and saves a wide range of bitmap formats
• Rapid conversion to greyscale
• Resize of icon is possible
• Undo and redo on many functions.

Get it

You should first try [by means of your distribution]. If your distribution does not contain KIconEdit, here is how you can install it. This description is based on SUSE Linux 11.4:

• open a console
• make sure all supporting software is installed

yast -i libkde4-devel cmake subversion make gcc-c++

• get the source code

svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/extragear/graphics

• compile it

cd graphics
cmake . && make -j8 && make install

• as a test, start it

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