X icon

[Harold L Hunt II]

>> The defaukt icon obviously comes from the icon resource in XWin.exe.
>> Such resources can have small icons 16x16 and large ones 32x32 and
>> both are actually present.  Problem is that the icons on the title and
>> in the taskbar are scaled to 24x24 on my setup, so Windows must do
>> some internal scaling.  It's curious they don't do a better job of it,
>> I know that one of my own applications written for Win 3.x some years
>> ago could do this better by adding a standard Windows blur effect.
>>
> 

Microsoft never comes right out and says what bloody size *all* icons 
are supposed to be in the various places in Windows.  The nearest I have 
ever been able to find is the following:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/winxpicons.asp

It looks like 16 x 16 is what is used for the notification tray, and 
they specifically mention that 24 x 24 doesn't have to be supplied by an 
application icon (they are used in toolbars though).

> I was able to make a pretty good 24 x 24 - 16 color icon without much 
> trouble.  I also made a 24 x 24 - 256 color icon.  Now I suppose we 
> should change the patch that Colin sent in to load the 24 x 24 icon 
> instead of the 16 x 16 icon for the tray.  I might give that a shot.
> 

Nope that doesn't look good.  I just noticed that you had said that you 
had customized your system to use 24 x 24 icons in the notification 
area.  I will see if I can find a metric that we can query to find this 
size.

Harold