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Re: XWin Icon Fidelity


Colin,

I looked at the X icon once in an icon editor on my friend's TiBook. Recall that an icon file stores several different sizes and depths of icons. The problem with the X icon that we have is that the masks on a lot of the depths/sizes are exposing too much area and a lot of that area has wonky coloring in it. That wonky/antialiased coloring comes when you upsize an icon from, say, 256 colors to true color. You then have to go back in and get rid of a lot of the antialiasing and shrink the mask back down.

I just recently (last night) found a free icon editor for windows that does the trick. I may see if I can clean up our X icon eventually.

Harold

Colin Harrison wrote:
Hi,

On multiwindow, picking up on Lev's comment on icons.
The XWin X icon displayed in the tray isn't as good looking as the default X
icon for say an xterm in the task bar.
Looking with the XP Magnifier it is probably either an aliasing effect, or a
mask defect?

That is on XP with an ATI Rage Pro (ATI has proven to be fussy on icon
structure and Lev and me use 'em).
I'll try an alternative XWin icon and see what happens.

Colin


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