XWin Icon Fidelity

[Harold L Hunt II]

Colin,

I looked at the X icon once in an icon editor on my friend's TiBook. 
Recall that an icon file stores several different sizes and depths of 
icons.  The problem with the X icon that we have is that the masks on a 
lot of the depths/sizes are exposing too much area and a lot of that 
area has wonky coloring in it.  That wonky/antialiased coloring comes 
when you upsize an icon from, say, 256 colors to true color.  You then 
have to go back in and get rid of a lot of the antialiasing and shrink 
the mask back down.

I just recently (last night) found a free icon editor for windows that 
does the trick.  I may see if I can clean up our X icon eventually.

Harold

Colin Harrison wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On multiwindow, picking up on Lev's comment on icons.
> The XWin X icon displayed in the tray isn't as good looking as the default X
> icon for say an xterm in the task bar.
> Looking with the XP Magnifier it is probably either an aliasing effect, or a
> mask defect?
> 
> That is on XP with an ATI Rage Pro (ATI has proven to be fussy on icon
> structure and Lev and me use 'em).
> I'll try an alternative XWin icon and see what happens.
> 
> Colin