Re: icons of floating widgets in gui

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 11/26/2012 03:10 PM, Torsten wrote:
> On 26.11.2012 10:26, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
[snip]
> > However, black might not work if someone picks a theme for which the
> > background is black (e.g., handheld device with OLED screen).  So, I was
> > going to create a set of icons with cut and paste of the letters onto
> > another layer in GIMP, then on a mid layer put a white box with black
> > border, i.e.,
> >
> > Layer 1: Octave logo with transparencies
> > Layer 2: White box with border
> > Layer 3: Black letter
> >
> > then flatten the layers into a PNG image.  Haven't gotten that far yet.
> >   I suspect they will look similar to the other set of icons, but with a
> > letter description rather than a graphical depiction.
> >
> > Dan
>
> Good idea to make a background for the letters. What about filling the
> circle for that purpose?
>
> Torsten

Not bad.  Preserves the logo that way.  I put the icon on a black 
background and it still looks fairly good.  (There's a little leaking 
right around the inner edge, but that's a minor fix.)

Dan