Re: Icon love

[Larry Ewing <lewing ximian com>]

Just as a data point I believe windows .ico format allows the icon
creator to add both an AND and a XOR mask to the icon for cases like
this.  This also brings up a related issue that gdk-pixbuf's loader api
is completely insufficient to deal with something like .ico, that can
have both multiple resolutions and masks.

--Larry

On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 11:21, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 04:19:48PM +0000, Bill Haneman wrote:
> > Generally icons should be themeable...
> 
> > icons that have transparent backgrounds - one solution is to theme the icons which 
> > solves the problem for dark backgrounds...
> 
> It is only a solution for stock icons.  If an app adds a new icon it
> is not feasible for a theme designer to anticipate and provide
> reverse video versions of every potential icon.  I've proposed that
> for 2.1 we add a monochrome flag to icons, and a dark flag to
> themes.  Then we can auto invert the colours as necessary.  This
> won't solve all issues, but it should help.
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