Re: Heh! Maybe I can help! (was: Icons)

[Michael Glauche <mg plum de>]

Matthias Warkus schrieb:

> +++ Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 08:49:49PM -0400 +++
> Gregory McLean e-mails me. Film at 11. Reply right now, after the break.
> > Lemme say this.. This is the sizes that are currently in use.
> >
> > Desktop icons: 48x48
> > Menu Icons:    24x24
> >
> > So that would be my guess for sizes needed right off. I think they are
> > scaled
> > to other sizes..
>
> Icons are generally scaled down to 24x24 for the menus, too. Actually,
> I think all of Gnome's external icons (as opposed to stock pixmaps)
> are 48x48.
>

Can PNG have multiple resolutions ? like 24x24 and 48x48 ? Some icons don't
scale
very well, and one nice thing on the windows .ico format is IIRC that it can
have multiple
resolutions and color deeps.

regards,
   Michael