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by: Spirit@clouds.net - Fri, 19 Aug 2022 00:47 UTC

I have just upgraded my computer to Kubuntu 22.4.1. When I installed
Agent using wine, there was no desktop icon and I can't find one on my
system.

I found a few "pictures of Agent" which I'm trying to substitue for
icons, but they are lacking. Does anyone know where to find a decent
icon for this program might be found?

Thank you for your help

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From: wlfraed@ix.netcom.com (Dennis Lee Bieber)
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by: Dennis Lee Bieber - Fri, 19 Aug 2022 02:00 UTC

On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 20:47:45 -0400, Spirit@clouds.net declaimed the
following:

>I have just upgraded my computer to Kubuntu 22.4.1. When I installed
>Agent using wine, there was no desktop icon and I can't find one on my
>system.
>
>I found a few "pictures of Agent" which I'm trying to substitue for
>icons, but they are lacking. Does anyone know where to find a decent
>icon for this program might be found?
>
Inside the executable... There are 31 different icons in the
executable, though only about 8 are appropriate for desktop (there are
something like four "red X" icons).

How to extract one? Can't say -- only that on Windows,
right-click/Properties on a /shortcut/ to Agent presents a "Change Icon"
option, and that option searches within the executable.

--
Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
wlfraed@ix.netcom.com http://wlfraed.microdiversity.freeddns.org/

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by: gfretwell@aol.com - Fri, 19 Aug 2022 04:59 UTC

On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 20:47:45 -0400, Spirit@clouds.net wrote:

I can post V1 and V8 on my web site if you can't find them.

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by: Ralph Fox - Fri, 19 Aug 2022 08:27 UTC

On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 20:47:45 -0400, Spirit@clouds.net wrote:

> I have just upgraded my computer to Kubuntu 22.4.1. When I installed
> Agent using wine, there was no desktop icon and I can't find one on my
> system.
>
> I found a few "pictures of Agent" which I'm trying to substitue for
> icons, but they are lacking. Does anyone know where to find a decent
> icon for this program might be found?
>
> Thank you for your help

There is a decent icon for Forté Agent here, in Windows .ico format
<https://web.archive.org/web/20040805200319/http://www.iconstructions.com/icons.html>

However for Linux I imagine you might want a portable format like PNG.

1. There were Agent and Free Agent icon images on the old feature
comparison page. You can see them here:
<https://web.archive.org/web/20060625212006/http://www.forteinc.com:80/agent/features.php>

2. Forté used to have a gallery of images on their website.
Some are suitable, and others could be cropped to size.
You can see the gallery here:
<https://web.archive.org/web/20050818032538/http://forteinc.com:80/gallery/index.php>

3. There were some "Film Noir" style Agent logo images
* One is in the left column of the Forté's home page here:
<https://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php>
* You can see some other ones here:
<https://web.archive.org/web/20040626132240/http://www.forteinc.com/survey/agentlogo.php>

If your system needs PNG then you might need to convert some of these
from GIF or JPEG to PNG.

FWIW when I installed Agent using Wine (in Linux Mint Cinnamon) 2 years ago,
Wine automatically put Agent icon images (in PNG format) in these folders:
~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps
~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps
~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps

--
Kind regards
Ralph

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by: Spirit@clouds.net - Fri, 19 Aug 2022 11:16 UTC

On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 20:27:32 +1200, Ralph Fox <-rf-nz-@-.invalid>
wrote:

>On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 20:47:45 -0400, Spirit@clouds.net wrote:
>
>> I have just upgraded my computer to Kubuntu 22.4.1. When I installed
>> Agent using wine, there was no desktop icon and I can't find one on my
>> system.
>>
>> I found a few "pictures of Agent" which I'm trying to substitue for
>> icons, but they are lacking. Does anyone know where to find a decent
>> icon for this program might be found?
>>
>> Thank you for your help
>
>
>There is a decent icon for Forté Agent here, in Windows .ico format
><https://web.archive.org/web/20040805200319/http://www.iconstructions.com/icons.html>
>
>However for Linux I imagine you might want a portable format like PNG.
>
> 1. There were Agent and Free Agent icon images on the old feature
> comparison page. You can see them here:
>     <https://web.archive.org/web/20060625212006/http://www.forteinc.com:80/agent/features.php>
>
> 2. Forté used to have a gallery of images on their website.
> Some are suitable, and others could be cropped to size.
> You can see the gallery here:
>     <https://web.archive.org/web/20050818032538/http://forteinc.com:80/gallery/index.php>
>
> 3. There were some "Film Noir" style Agent logo images
> * One is in the left column of the Forté's home page here:
>         <https://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php>
> * You can see some other ones here:
>         <https://web.archive.org/web/20040626132240/http://www.forteinc.com/survey/agentlogo.php>
>
>If your system needs PNG then you might need to convert some of these
>from GIF or JPEG to PNG.
>
>
>FWIW when I installed Agent using Wine (in Linux Mint Cinnamon) 2 years ago,
>Wine automatically put Agent icon images (in PNG format) in these folders:
> ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps
> ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps
> ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps

Thank you very much, Ralph. Yes, they are right where you said. And
they were on my old install of Linux. Sometimes computers can be
tempermental. Now that you found it for me I'll never be missing it
again.

>Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com http://wlfraed.microdiversity.freeddns.org/
>
>Inside the executable... There are 31 different icons in the
>executable, though only about 8 are appropriate for desktop (there are
>something like four "red X" icons).
>
>How to extract one? Can't say -- only that on Windows,
>right-click/Properties on a /shortcut/ to Agent presents a "Change Icon"
>option, and that option searches within the executable.

Thank you. That would work on Windows... not the best way to easily
get it on Linux

>gfretwell@aol.com
>
>I can post V1 and V8 on my web site if you can't find them.

Thank you. But it looks like Ralph found them for me right on my
system. I appreciate your offer.

"Everyone's head is a cheap movie show." -- Jeff G. Bone

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Forte Agent Desk-Top Icon?	Spirit
Re: Forte Agent Desk-Top Icon?	Dennis Lee Bieber
Re: Forte Agent Desk-Top Icon?	gfretwell
Re: Forte Agent Desk-Top Icon?	Ralph Fox
Re: Forte Agent Desk-Top Icon?	Spirit