X/Cygwin icon proposal

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Wed Mar 10 18:00:00 GMT 2004


Nahor,

That new one you just made with the alpha channel is awesome!  It would 
be great if we can create an icon that has this, plus non-alpha channel 
icons (or at least it doesn't look much worse than the current icon when 
alpha channels are not supported).

Excellent work!

Harold

Nahor wrote:

> Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> 
>> http://pdx.freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xwin/X.ico?rev=1.1.6.1&only_with_tag=CYGWIN&cvsroot=xorg 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> My vote is between the one in CVS and my new one.
> Ideally, the news one should have a real alpha channel for transparency 
> around its border. It don't know if it's actually possible but the 
> FireFox/Thunderbird icons seems to use such an alpha channel for the 
> shadow part.
> 
> What about this one. It has an alpha channel. It has only the 32x32 16m 
> colors for now so look at it using a big view. It looks really cool on 
> my black desktop. Really smooth. However, I haven't checked it how it 
> looks on systems that don't support alpha channel in icons.



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