icon-slicer

Utility for generating icon and cursor themes

icon-slicer is a utility for generating icon themes and libXcursor cursor themes. The inputs to icon-slicer are conceptually: A) a set of multi-layer images, one for each size B) a XML theme description file Each image contains all the cursors arranged in a grid; for cursors the layers are: - a layer with a dot for the hotspot of each cursor - the main image or first animation frame for multi-frame animated cursors - the second animation frame for multi-frame animated cursors For icons, the layers are: - a layer with the images - an optional layer with attachment points for emblems - an optional layer with boxes for embedding text into icons In practice, since loading of multilayer images is not supported by standard image libraries, each layer is input as a separate image file.