From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16156 invoked by alias); 27 Jul 2011 17:31:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 16144 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Jul 2011 17:31:09 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from etr-usa.com (HELO etr-usa.com) (130.94.180.135) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:30:53 +0000 Received: (qmail 63399 invoked by uid 13447); 27 Jul 2011 17:30:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [172.20.0.42]) ([71.33.33.107]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.180.135 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 27 Jul 2011 17:30:52 -0000 Message-ID: <4E304B49.2070308@etr-usa.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:31:00 -0000 From: Warren Young User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 256x256 px icons References: <20110725091106.GN29727@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E2E05DD.40101@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4E2E0847.3060004@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20110726110134.GU29727@calimero.vinschen.de> <4E2EB916.6000501@etr-usa.com> <20110727074143.GV29727@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20110727074143.GV29727@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2011-07/txt/msg00148.txt.bz2 On 7/27/2011 1:41 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > You say you already have created such icon files before. Would you > have fun to create a new "official" cygwin.ico? Here you go: http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/mintty-icon/combined.ico That file contains a 256 px 32 bpp (RGBA) Vista (PNG) icon plus standard BMP icons in 48 px 32 bpp, 32 px 8 bpp, 24 px 8 bpp, and 16 px 8 bpp sizes and depths. If you look at the directory view, you can see the source files that went into this. I used the icobundl tool from http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/product/ICOBundle to assemble combined.ico. I'm willing to keep playing with this a bit more. Points of discussion: - Do we need more sizes? I've seen reference to odd sizes like 64x64 and 96x96, but surely we can trust Vista+ to scale the 256x256 to these sizes without needing hand-tweaked versions? - Something I read talked about the 16x16 being 4bpp, but I can't see a need for that since the the old Windows 95 Plus Pack days. Everything from Win98 up should actually be fine with 16bpp and up. The only reason I used 8bpp for the smallest ones is that's a big enough box of crayons. - There are two source icon files. full-size.png is pretty much what I linked to yesterday as mintty-icon-glowy-wedge.png, with some minor tweaks. high-contrast is a variant of this with higher contrast, needed when scaling to smaller sizes. - The 16, 24 and 32 px versions are pretty heavily hand-tweaked after they were scaled down from high-contrast.png. Acceptable, or more tweaking needed? > The only problem to look out for is licensing. If you use foreign > art, you have to make sure that the icon is published under a free > license. There are two source pieces, the fattbuttlary Cygwin icon and the KDE Konsole icon. I assembled and massaged them on work time. Red Hat has a copyright assignment on file for me, from way back.