Re: Icons of program

[raster redhat com]

On 18 Apr, Anders Wegge Jakobsen shouted:
->  Dwight Hubbard <dlhubbar@collins.rockwell.com> writes:
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->  > >
->  > > filename
->  > > filename.info
->  > >
->  > 
->  > I was thinking the same thing yesterday.  It's simple to implement
->  > and the Amiga showed that the concept worked fairly well.  What
->  > would be nice would be to use the same format as the Amiga since
->  > that would provide us with a large working set of freely available
->  > icons to work with.
->  
->   I'd give that idea a bit of thought, before following it. The concept
->  is sound in itself, but the implementation lacks in several
->  places. The biggest flaw is the non-existant handling of different
->  palettes and/or color depths of the icons. Furthermore, the
->  manipulation of such images would require a specialized tool.

yes.. that was a problem.. it coudl be easily fixed by having icons
24bpp:) create a new format. info was good for amigas.. but not for
gnome. it's a good concept tho whcih shoudl at least be considered when
coming up with a new format.

->   It would probably be better to provide a tool to convert from .info
->  to xpm or somesuch, and base further work on that.

no. xpm cannot contain all the extra information that an inof file did
(ie 2 images ofr an icon (selected, unslected) if no second image, the
highlight method, and other parameterd foir the comamnd when ti is
executed, comments etc.

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