Re: Icons of program

[raster redhat com]

On 18 Apr, Anders Wegge Jakobsen shouted:
->  raster@redhat.com writes:
->  
->  > On 18 Apr, Anders Wegge Jakobsen shouted:
->  > ->  Dwight Hubbard <dlhubbar@collins.rockwell.com> writes:
->  > ->  
->  > ->  > >
->  > ->  > > 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.
->  
->   24 bpp migth be a little excessive in most cases :-) 

but generalised it solves the "limited colors" case, saves having to
generate palettes for icons etc. etc. etc. :)

->  > ->   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.
->  
->   Well, in that case, replace "somesuch" with a format consisting of 2
->  xpm images together with the extra information.

xpm is 1. and abigous format, 2. inefficient (for small icon images
24-bit rgb will infact be smaller). I wouldn't dream of using xpm for
ANYTHING except inlined code.

->  /Wegge

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