Modartt user forum - Icon for pianoteq...?

Re: Icon for pianoteq...?

2015-03-09T22:23:31Z

Hello All,

Please be aware that the agraffe's orientation in Pianoteq's logo is one for an upright piano. Its exact mirror opposite is what you find on real acoustic grand pianos.

Cheers,

Joe

Re: Icon for pianoteq...?

2015-03-09T17:48:48Z

The Pianoteq logo shown on their web page and that appears at the top of the program window would make a nice launcher icon. Having once tried my hand at piano-tuning, it has a special meaning for me. It's that place where a piano tuner has to nudge and coax and struggle with the stubborn resistance of the strings to fall into exactly the right amount of dis-tuning that makes a note sing. A very appropriate symbol!

Unfortunately, the way Pianoteq is distributed for Linux, you get no icon file to use in Linux system menus (docks) or desktop. However, I have now found a way to get a Pianoteq icon in my menus: open www.pianoteq.com in Firefox. Open Firefox Tools>Page info>Media. Click on https://www.pianoteq.com/images/logo/favicon.ico and download it to a writeable folder on your computer. Then call up http://iconverticons.com/online/, drag the icon onto the page and store it as a .png file. For some reason, the .png produced by this service is defective, but it can be repaired simply by opening it with gimp and saving it to a new file. Copy this file to an appropriate place; by Ubuntu/Debian convention, this would be /usr/share/app-install/icons. Pay attention to file and folder privileges.

Icon for pianoteq...?

2014-12-27T03:27:32Z

....so, i was (not so) surprised that creating a dock launcher for pianoteq in xfce (unix desktop env.) came up with the default "application" icon.... so what did i do? I took a screenshot of the pianoteq.com website and edited out the nice piano image at the left of the "Pianoteq 5 released" announcement

Here it is as it appears on pianoteq.com (149x163 pixels) except with transparency added: