From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Time to install the new icons Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 20:14:51 +0100 Message-ID: <437F79AB.4000706@ourcomments.org> References: <437BA878.6030700@student.lu.se> <87veysb5mk.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <437BB383.1000208@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132429000 11687 80.91.229.2 (19 Nov 2005 19:36:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 19:36:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: andrew_zhilin@yahoo.com, Lennart Borgman , "Richard M. Stallman" , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 19 20:36:38 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EdYVJ-0006vI-GO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 20:36:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EdYVJ-0003fC-0l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 14:36:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EdYV2-0003cq-1R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 14:35:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EdYV1-0003cX-9k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 14:35:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EdYV1-0003cS-5H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 14:35:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.98] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EdYUz-0007r4-Pm; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 14:35:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 437DDFC20003A16E; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 20:14:51 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:46274 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >So should we install the single Windows .ico file sent in the above >message as the default Emacs icon on MS-Windows? I'm not sure we've >reached a consensus on this. Would people who use Emacs on Windows >look at that icon and speak up their minds? > > Let us some up the questions then. First the look and feel (please look again at the page http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/NewIcons.html at Andrew Zhilin's icons): 1) Which 16x16 icon should be used? There are two versions on the last row of Andrews contributions. I myself prefer the second of those because it is more close to the bigger versions, but I know others have offered different opinions. 2) Andrew asked if the darker or lighter variant should be used. I think the darker version is in the top row and the lighter in the bottom row. 3) Some people (including myself) ask for these icons in different colors. I know it is rather easy to handle on w32 and I guess that it is easy to handle on other platforms too. Then some more technical questions (size and color depth): A) Which different sizes do we want in the icon file for w32? I believe at least 16x16, 32x32 and 48x48. How about 24x24, is that commonly used? B) What color resolutions do we want? I believe low color resolution (256 colors) is necessary (because scaling down the color resolution does not give good results sometimes). How about high resolution? Should that look exactly the same? Higher resolutions gives a bit more possibilities. Maybe you want to use that Andrew?