Re: 256x256 px icons

[Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>]

On 30 July 2011 19:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 29 21:29, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> Attached is my take on this, with 64x64, 48x48, 32x32 showing
>> fatbuttlarry's Cygwin symbol inside the Konsole icon, and 16x16
>> showing the Cygwin symbol only.
>
> Not bad, but the green border around the C is too dark to set the
> C apart from the background. ÂThe border needs some light grey which
> allows to recognize the C.

I'm not sure how to do that, but the attached attempt turn up the
saturation of the green outline.

It also reduces the blurriness of the whole thing a bit. Apparently
it's better to convert an SVG to a high-res bitmap and resize that
down with a bitmap program such as Paint.net instead of converting the
SVG straight to the target bitmap sizes (at least when using
InkScape).

The two attached icons differ at size 32: cygwin-terminal2.ico has the
Cygwin-in-terminal there, whereas cygwin-terminal3.ico has just the
Cygwin symbol. Size 32 shows up in the Windows 7 taskbar.

Btw, an insiduous Windows feature when playing around with icons is
Explorer's icon cache, which apparently is unable to detect when an
icon file has changed, so one can waste quite a bit of time wondering
why changes don't seem to make a difference. Renaming the icon helps,
except if that icon name existed before, in which case you get to see
that (possibly long-deleted) icon instead. And there only seem to be
seriously hacky ways to clear the cache. Gah.

Andy

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