From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10155 invoked by alias); 4 Aug 2011 08:39:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 10105 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Aug 2011 08:39:33 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:39:16 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id D0F8F2C03BB; Thu, 4 Aug 2011 10:39:11 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:39:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 256x256 px icons Message-ID: <20110804083911.GE18612@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <4E32BFA8.2080907@etr-usa.com> <20110730183646.GM26203@calimero.vinschen.de> <20110801080730.GT26203@calimero.vinschen.de> <20110802152428.GC8652@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-08/txt/msg00029.txt.bz2 On Aug 4 06:49, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 2 August 2011 16:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > I tried your icons on my desktop and the standalone icon looks good.  In > > the terminal icons the beveled C looks better than the fatbuttlarry C, > > cleaner, crisper. > > I think it would be better to stick to one. I don't particularly mind > which, in principle anyway. Ok. > Warren's has the advantage of a 256 version and that it's more > tweakable assuming he provides the vector version it's presumably > based on. It does need to lose that shadow though, and have the bottom > edge fixed. Also, the bottom half of the green triangle is a bit on > the dark side. I agree. I think the dark side of the wedge is a result of the shadowing. > > It's also easier to distinguish from the dark > > background, but that's probably just because you used a darker shade > > of grey for the frame.  In the terminal window, a lighter grey really > > doesn't hurt. > > It's pretty much the same grey actually (~220), at full size anyway. > But the border is thinner and/or partially transparent in larry's. > Therefore, when scaling it down, it blends into the background more. Right. In my icons (which somehow nobody cared to comment upon) I tried to use a lighter grey for the C frame for smaller icons. > > Generally it looks like your C's are a pixel or two smaller, except in > > the smallest sizes.  Gimp shows that you're always leaving a transparent > > frame of at least one pixel.  Any reason for that? > > Not really. Just seemed a prudent thing to do when cutting it out of > the original, but you're right, there's no need for this, and I'd be > happy to redo it. Sure! I would be more happy with the fatbuttlarry icon if it would be available in a nice 256x256 variation, though. That's really a big plus of Warren's version. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat