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Re: Time to install the new icons


From: Lennart Borgman
Subject: Re: Time to install the new icons
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 00:52:20 +0100
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923)

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

And unfortunately I can not look at the png files in etc/images/icons. The copies I have downloaded from CVS are perhaps broken on my pc. I am using w32 and cvsnt from Oct 9 2005. Must something special be done to download the images on w32?

I use -kb for all the files, and beyond that didn't need anything
special.  The *.png files are marked -kb anyway, so I cannot imagine
what could be the problem.
Strange. I tried to download them again. Firefox says "The image file "file://...../emacs/etc/images/icons/emacs_16.png" cannot be displayed because it contains errors". Could it be cvsnt that is broken? (I do not suggest so because I do not at all know the details here. I just ask.)

BTW when trying to open the icon file within Emacs instead I get two different errors depending on how I do this. If I use C-x C-f (find-file) I get the error "Cannot determine image type". If I open the file from dired it is opened but displayed as text in a buffer where the command line says "(image)". (But for Emacs it might be some of my patches for w32 that might be stopping some updates. I have to look throught these again.)

Both: I say that we have now 32x32 and 48x48 icons, and each one has 2
variants, one each for dark and light background.  And I say that the
new icon, if we accept it, should have the same 4 versions.
Can you then please tell me where these are?

I do not understand your comments about sizes either. Did you perhaps forget 16x16? I was just asking about 24x24 to be sure. Was that size perhaps needed on another platform than w32?

All I know is that we now have only 32x32 and 48x48 icons in nt/icons.
That means these two sizes are enough to satisfy users' needs on
Windows.  So I asked for the new icon to be of the same sizes.
I think I wrote long before that those sizes most of the time does not work very well for 16x16.

The icon from Andrew actually include versions for 256 colors and 32-bit colors (which I believe is for xp), but no 24-bit color version.

How many colors we have in nt/icons icons?
The current emacs.ico file contains only a 16-color icon 32x32 pixels. I do not think it looks very nice either when viewed as 32x32 or 16x16. I do not think it would be a good idea to use only a 16-color icon for Andrews pictures. I am however not sure if should try to make a 16-color version too (and I doubt it can be made good looking). I do not remember when it is used.




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