Where can I find a good desktop favicon.ico editor?

Question

What is a simple easy to use desktop program for creating and editing favicon.ico files? I already have used http://favicon.cc which is a great site, but are there any better desktop tools designed for this? (Ideally ones that run under Ubuntu and aren't as complex as Gimp)

Answer 1

If you have Photoshop, I like the free ICO plugin

Answer 2

Try Iconworkshop: http://www.axialis.com/iconworkshop/

Answer 3

If you are not worried about Internet Explorer, you can just use any old PNG file:

<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="/path/image.png" />

Answer 4

IcoFX is a good option if you want something free.

EDIT: I see you want Linux editors. You might also have a look at KIconEdit or BabyGimp. (I believe both of those are available in the Ubuntu repos.)

Answer 5

Use a good general image editor, and then save it in a variety of formats. You can save;

• PNG for good browsers. Link it from the top of the HTML file, the way Joe said
• ICO for Internet Explorer, in the root called favicon.ico
• Make an iPhone icon by saving a 57x57px PNG in the root, and calling it apple-touch-icon.png

There are lots of tools for converting normal image formats into ICO

Answer 6

One thing you could do is make the icon in whatever program you like, save it to a .png, open it in gimp and then simply re-save in an .ico.

Answer 7

the full icon format actually can include multiple resolutions so the machine can choose which one to use; i like Easy Icon Maker; the 15-day trial is fully functional and very easy to use

Answer 8

On windows I use Visual Studio built-in editor, I have heard that you could make an Icon with bmp image by setting the right sizes(although it never really worked with me).

Answer 9

After evaluating different Windows icon editors a few months ago we are now using AWicons Pro

Answer 10

The PNG to ICO convertor in this post should work as well.