Re: Time to install the new icons

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > And unfortunately I can not look at the png files in etc/images/icons. 
> >    
> >
> > The copies I have downloaded from CVS are perhaps broken on my pc. I am 
> > using w32 and cvsnt from Oct 9 2005. Must something special be done to 
> > download the images on w32?
> >    
>
> I use -kb for all the files, and beyond that didn't need anything
> special.  The *.png files are marked -kb anyway, so I cannot imagine
> what could be the problem.
>  
Strange. I tried to download them again. Firefox says "The image file 
"file://...../emacs/etc/images/icons/emacs_16.png" cannot be displayed 
because it contains errors". Could it be cvsnt that is broken? (I do not 
suggest so because I do not at all know the details here. I just ask.)

BTW when trying to open the icon file within Emacs instead I get two 
different errors depending on how I do this. If I use C-x C-f 
(find-file) I get the error "Cannot determine image type". If I open the 
file from dired it is opened but displayed as text in a buffer where the 
command line says "(image)".  (But for Emacs it might be some of my 
patches for w32 that might be stopping some updates. I have to look 
throught these again.)

> Both: I say that we have now 32x32 and 48x48 icons, and each one has 2
> variants, one each for dark and light background.  And I say that the
> new icon, if we accept it, should have the same 4 versions.
>  
Can you then please tell me where these are?

>  
>
> > I do not understand your comments about sizes either. Did you perhaps 
> > forget 16x16? I was just asking about 24x24 to be sure. Was that size 
> > perhaps needed on another platform than w32?
> >    
>
> All I know is that we now have only 32x32 and 48x48 icons in nt/icons.
> That means these two sizes are enough to satisfy users' needs on
> Windows.  So I asked for the new icon to be of the same sizes.
>  
I think I wrote long before that those sizes most of the time does not 
work very well for 16x16.

>  
>
> > The icon from Andrew actually include versions for 256 colors and 32-bit 
> > colors (which I believe is for xp), but no 24-bit color version.
> >    
>
> How many colors we have in nt/icons icons?
>  
The current emacs.ico file contains only a 16-color icon 32x32 pixels. I 
do not think it looks very nice either when viewed as 32x32 or 16x16. I 
do not think it would be a good idea to use only a 16-color icon for 
Andrews pictures. I am however not sure if should try to make a 16-color 
version too (and I doubt it can be made good looking). I do not remember 
when it is used.