On 1 August 2011 09:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 31 21:21, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> On 30 July 2011 21:22, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> > On 30 July 2011 19:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >> On Jul 29 21:29, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> >>> Attached is my take on this, with 64x64, 48x48, 32x32 showing
>> >>> fatbuttlarry's Cygwin symbol inside the Konsole icon, and 16x16
>> >>> showing the Cygwin symbol only.
>> >>
>> >> Not bad, but the green border around the C is too dark to set the
>> >> C apart from the background.  The border needs some light grey which
>> >> allows to recognize the C.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure how to do that, but the attached attempt turn up the
>> > saturation of the green outline.
>> >
>> > It also reduces the blurriness of the whole thing a bit. Apparently
>> > it's better to convert an SVG to a high-res bitmap and resize that
>> > down with a bitmap program such as Paint.net instead of converting the
>> > SVG straight to the target bitmap sizes (at least when using
>> > InkScape).
>> >
>> > The two attached icons differ at size 32: cygwin-terminal2.ico has the
>> > Cygwin-in-terminal there, whereas cygwin-terminal3.ico has just the
>> > Cygwin symbol. Size 32 shows up in the Windows 7 taskbar.
>>
>> Further to those two, here's one with the glowy Cygwin symbol all the
>> way from size 16 to 64. It's a "remastered" version of the one in
>> cygutils; a bit bigger and with the aforementioned brighter green
>> outline around the "C".
>
> Thanks.  But, hmm.  The longer I play with it, the less I like the green
> glow.  It adds an eerie touch to the C

Now what's wrong with that? Cygwin - mean and a bit eerie. ;)

> and it still doesn't set the C
> really apart on dark backgrounds.

I disagree, looking at a desktop with a darkish picture and dark grey
taskbar and window borders.

> I think we should go with a grey outline.

I did eventually work out how to turn the outline of fatbuttlarry's
icon grey. See attachments.

Andy