Re: New Gnumeric icon

[Ryan Pavlik <abiryan ryand net>]

Ivan Wong wrote:
If you would like, email the PNG's to me and I can take a peek at it.  
You can put a full-transparency version in along with the scaled down 
one - Windows XP supports this, IIRC.

RYan

> Hi Ryan,
>
> I think the problem is not about converting png to ico or saving multiple size versions as a single file 
> (actually the current one I made some years ago has multiple size versions). The problem that is more 
> difficult than writing such a program by myself is that I don't have the skill to make the edges of those 
> graphics looks reasonably good after converting the original 8-bit transparent mask into 1-bit. And so I just 
> used a pure black background to avoid having any transparency, which is not good. I think there's a bug in 
> bugzilla regarding this and ends up with seeking a gnome artist to do the 1-bit alpha icon.
>
> Cheers,
> Ivan.
>
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:11:12 -0600, Ryan Pavlik <abiryan ryand net> wrote:
>   
> > As a note regarding that, using png2ico (found here:
> > http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/ ) would probably be a
> > useful step as well as you can combine the multiple size versions into a
> > single file in the format that Windows desires for icons.  I use it for
> > my AbiWord icons on Windows.
> >
> > Ryan
> >
> > Ivan, Wong Yat Cheung wrote:
> >     
> > > Hi Vinicius,
> > >
> > > Looks great! Could you mind to make an icon collection for the Windows
> > > version of Gnumeric as well? i.e. icons with 1-bit transparent mask. I
> > > remember there're some users complaining about the icons on win32 which
> > > don't look very great...
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Ivan.
> > >
> > > Vinicius Depizzol wrote:
> > >
> > >       
> > > > Hello again,
> > > >
> > > > After some time, I finished all sizes of Gnumeric icon, including
> > > >         
> > 16x16.
> >     
> > > > Take a look in Tango Fridays page[1] or directly:
> > > >
> > > > -
> > > >         
> > http://www.ingral.com.br/~vdepizzol/icons/apps/gnumeric/16x16/gnumeric.png
> >     
> > > > -
> > > >         
> > http://www.ingral.com.br/~vdepizzol/icons/apps/gnumeric/22x22/gnumeric.png
> >     
> > > > -
> > > >         
> > http://www.ingral.com.br/~vdepizzol/icons/apps/gnumeric/32x32/gnumeric.png
> >     
> > > > -
> > > >         
> > http://www.ingral.com.br/~vdepizzol/icons/apps/gnumeric/48x48/gnumeric.png
> >     
> > > > -
> > > >         
> > http://www.ingral.com.br/~vdepizzol/icons/apps/gnumeric/scalable/gnumeric.svg
> >     
> > > > [1] http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Fridays
> > > >
> > > > On 12/14/06, Uri David Akavia <uridavid akavia gmail com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >         
> > > > > Personally, I like the one with the purple better (the default
> > > > >           
> > colors).
> >     
> > > > > Very high contrast, and clear.
> > > > >
> > > > > Very good job.
> > > > >
> > > > > Uri David
> > > > >
> > > > > On 12/13/06, Vinicius Depizzol <vdepizzol gmail com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >           
> > > > > > Following the new Gnome Icon Theme, Tango Desktop Project is
> > > > > > creating[1] a lot of icons for applications that doesn't  use the
> > > > > > newer guidelines.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I created Gnumeric icon according to the actual[2] and this is the
> > > > > >             
> > result:
> >     
> > > > > > - Graph on center:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >             
> > http://www.ingral.com.br/~vdepizzol/icons/apps/gnumeric/48x48/gnumeric.png
> >     
> > > > > > - First row/col darker:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >             
> > http://www.ingral.com.br/~vdepizzol/icons/apps/gnumeric/scalable/gnumeric-test.png
> >     
> > > > > > - Graph with default colors of Gnumeric:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >             
> > http://www.ingral.com.br/~vdepizzol/icons/apps/gnumeric/scalable/gnumeric-default-colors.png
> >     
> > > > > > What do you think? Comments?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > [1] http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Fridays
> > > > > > [2] http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnumeric/gnumeric.png
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > Vinicius Depizzol
> > > > > > vdepizzol gmail com
> > > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > > gnumeric-list mailing list
> > > > > > gnumeric-list gnome org
> > > > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >             
> > >
> > >       
> > --
> > Ryan Pavlik
> > AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer, Art Lead: www.abisource.com
> > AbiWord Community Outreach Project: www.cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/blog/
> >
> > "Optimism is the father that leads to achievement."
> >  -- Helen Keller
> >
> > "The folder structure in a modern Linux distribution such as Ubuntu
> > was largely inspired by the original UNIX foundations that were
> > created by men with large beards and sensible jumpers."
> >  -- Jono Bacon, The Ubuntu Guide
> >     
>
>
>   


--
Ryan Pavlik
AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer, Art Lead: www.abisource.com
AbiWord Community Outreach Project: www.cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/blog/

"Optimism is the father that leads to achievement."
-- Helen Keller

"The folder structure in a modern Linux distribution such as Ubuntu
was largely inspired by the original UNIX foundations that were
created by men with large beards and sensible jumpers."
-- Jono Bacon, The Ubuntu Guide