Re: Toolbar: Suggestion for improved dired icon.

["Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

David Kastrup wrote:

>>Just don't forget to reduce the colors some more, ideally not more
>>than hundred.  Otherwise people running on 8 bit displays will run
>>out.  When reducing colors, avoid dithering, it looks bad on icons
>>this small.  And use the same palette as for the other icons also,
>>so the sum of colors Emacs uses doesn't increase (it is on the limit
>>for 8 bit displays already).
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>Did you do the conversion manually, or did you use some special tool
>for it?  Actually, this is a stupid question since you probably did
>not use pencil and paper.  So what tool did you use, and how?
>  
>

Gimp, I don't remember the details, but convert to indexed, and reduce 
colors and choose palette when doing that.  Then save as xpm, setting 
alpha to 255.  I don't think it was any more steps.

    Jan D.