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Re: [PATCH] Setup icon

From: Robert Collins <rbcollins at cygwin dot com>
To: Max Bowsher <maxb at ukf dot net>
Cc: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>, Cygwin-Apps <cygwin-apps at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: 01 Apr 2003 10:24:06 +1000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Setup icon
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On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 08:36, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 18:43, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> >> 2003-03-30  Gary R. Van Sickle  <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
> >>
> >> * cygwin.ico:  Added two new resolutions, 64x64 and 72x72.
> >> Sorry, no Cyppy.  Yet. ;-)
> >
> > Max, this is approved - if you could check it in...
> 
> Umm. This cygwin.ico is 39 times larger than the current one. The size
> increase could be much reduced by not storing the new icon sizes in
> 16-million-colour format, when they contain only 2 colours.


Very good point.
Gary, uncontentious as it was, this should be changed (assuming it's
easy to do so) - we don't want to increase setup.exe's binary size
pointlessly.

If it is hard to change, then I'd be interested to know the absolute
size difference the binary has - after upxing.

Cheers,
Rob

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