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diff --git a/docs/icons/README b/docs/icons/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..48250d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/icons/README @@ -0,0 +1,166 @@ +Public Domain Icons + + These icons were originally made for Mosaic for X and have been + included in the NCSA httpd and Apache server distributions in the + past. They are in the public domain and may be freely included in any + application. The originals were done by Kevin Hughes (kevinh@kevcom.com). + Andy Polyakov tuned the icon colors and added a few new images. + + If you'd like to contribute additions to this set, contact the httpd + documentation project <http://httpd.apache.org/docs-project/>. + + Almost all of these icons are 20x22 pixels in size. There are + alternative icons in the "small" directory that are 16x16 in size, + provided by Mike Brown (mike@hyperreal.org). + +Suggested Uses + +The following are a few suggestions, to serve as a starting point for ideas. +Please feel free to tweak and rename the icons as you like. + + a.gif + This might be used to represent PostScript or text layout + languages. + + alert.black.gif, alert.red.gif + These can be used to highlight any important items, such as a + README file in a directory. + + back.gif, forward.gif + These can be used as links to go to previous and next areas. + + ball.gray.gif, ball.red.gif + These might be used as bullets. + + binary.gif + This can be used to represent binary files. + + binhex.gif + This can represent BinHex-encoded data. + + blank.gif + This can be used as a placeholder or a spacing element. + + bomb.gif + This can be used to represent core files. + + box1.gif, box2.gif + These icons can be used to represent generic 3D applications and + related files. + + broken.gif + This can represent corrupted data. + + burst.gif + This can call attention to new and important items. + + c.gif + This might represent C source code. + + comp.blue.gif, comp.gray.gif + These little computer icons can stand for telnet or FTP + sessions. + + compressed.gif + This may represent compressed data. + + continued.gif + This can be a link to a continued listing of a directory. + + down.gif, up.gif, left.gif, right.gif + These can be used to scroll up, down, left and right in a + listing or may be used to denote items in an outline. + + dir.gif + Identical to folder.gif below. + + diskimg.gif + This can represent floppy disk storage. + + dvi.gif + This can represent DVI files. + + f.gif + This might represent FORTRAN or Forth source code. + + folder.gif, folder.open.gif, folder.sec.gif + The folder can represent directories. There is also a version + that can represent secure directories or directories that cannot + be viewed. + + generic.gif, generic.sec.gif, generic.red.gif + These can represent generic files, secure files, and important + files, respectively. + + hand.right.gif, hand.up.gif + These can point out important items (pun intended). + + image1.gif, image2.gif, image3.gif + These can represent image formats of various types. + + index.gif + This might represent a WAIS index or search facility. + + layout.gif + This might represent files and formats that contain graphics as + well as text layout, such as HTML and PDF files. + + link.gif + This might represent files that are symbolic links. + + movie.gif + This can represent various movie formats. + + p.gif + This may stand for Perl or Python source code. + + pie0.gif ... pie8.gif + These icons can be used in applications where a list of + documents is returned from a search. The little pie chart images + can denote how relevant the documents may be to your search + query. + + patch.gif + This may stand for patches and diff files. + + portal.gif + This might be a link to an online service or a 3D world. + + pdf.gif, ps.gif, quill.gif + These may represent PDF and PostScript files. + + screw1.gif, screw2.gif + These may represent CAD or engineering data and formats. + + script.gif + This can represent any of various interpreted languages, such as + Perl, python, TCL, and shell scripts, as well as server + configuration files. + + sound1.gif, sound2.gif + These can represent sound files. + + sphere1.gif, sphere2.gif + These can represent 3D worlds or rendering applications and + formats. + + tar.gif + This can represent TAR archive files. + + tex.gif + This can represent TeX files. + + text.gif + This can represent generic (plain) text files. + + transfer.gif + This can represent FTP transfers or uploads/downloads. + + unknown.gif + This may represent a file of an unknown type. + + uu.gif, uuencoded.gif + This can stand for uuencoded data. + + world1.gif, world2.gif + These can represent 3D worlds or other 3D formats. |