Two years ago I wrote about the FamFamFam Silk icons, a free set of 1000 icons that I use. I still use them in all my applications, and have even modified a few of them to suit my purposes. They come as PNG files, but I have converted them to GIF format so I can use them in for example Notes action buttons.
If you downloaded my generic database template, which I posted about two years ago as well , you have the GIF version of all the icons as image resources.
So if you haven’t taken a look at those icons, you should. Few things help your application or website to look professional as a set of consistent looking icons. And yes, it works in Xpages. You just have to add a little piece of CSS to make it look good, as Per Henrik Lausten told me when I posted about that in StackOverflow.
The magic code is: .lotusBtn img { margin-right: 10px; }
This will give you 10 pixels between the icon and the label. It might be enough with 5 or 6 pixels, depending on what the desired look of the page is.
Thanks for posting this! When I download the generic template and open it, it tells me it has ‘local access protection’ and I am not authorized. I believe that means the db has been encrypted. Can you remove that, or am I missing something?
No, I had managed to encrypt the database again. :-( Should be fixed now, let me know if you have any problem.
If you should want to expand on the Silk icon set: http://damieng.com/creative/icons/silk-companion-1-icons
Great tip! I was actually not aware of those icons.
Hi Karl-Henry
Downloaded the generic database template you are linking to above, but get an error when trying to open/copy it :-(
Error: “Attempted encryption operation is not supported by this version of Notes.”
Any chance you could upload/send me a version without encryption or a Intl. version that I’ll be able to use in Denmark?
Thanx in advance…
Brgds //Jesper
Should be working now. I made a small change to the database and managed to get encryption turned on again somehow…
Let me know if it is still not working.
This one has almost too many icons (10,787 unique icons) in all different sizes – similar quality.
http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/