From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jan D." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Toolbar: Suggestion for improved dired icon. Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:11:23 +0100 Message-ID: <42449A9B.60608@swipnet.se> References: <42434EC4.3080707@vmlinux.org> <4243641A.3010404@vmlinux.org> <42449270.2000503@swipnet.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 1111792423 15974 80.91.229.2 (25 Mar 2005 23:13:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:13:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Joachim Nilsson , GNU Emacs-Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 26 00:13:43 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DExzV-0005ST-EU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:13:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DEyF4-0008JN-Ve for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:29:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DEyE5-00083J-9D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:28:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DEyDx-0007yU-34 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:28:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DEyDw-0007yL-Vr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:28:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.54.107.70] (helo=mxfep01.bredband.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DExyY-0007io-8n; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:12:22 -0500 Original-Received: from coolsville.localdomain ([83.226.180.210] [83.226.180.210]) by mxfep01.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20050325231221.KRLC25559.mxfep01.bredband.com@coolsville.localdomain>; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:12:21 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: David Kastrup 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 X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:35176 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35176 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). >> >> > >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.