Re: gdk-pixbuf io-ico and Microsoft's new PNG icon format

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 10/27/06, Peter Zelezny <peterzelezny dodo com au> wrote:
> Hi GTKers,
>
> I've noticed that the .ICO format is now a wrapper for BMP or PNG [1].
>
> Has anyone thought about adding support for this in gdk-pixbuf/io-ico.c?
> There'll probably be some .ICO images floating around the net shortly
> (after Vista release?) that GTK+/Gimp cannot read because of this.
>
> After a not-so-extensive search I couldn't find any information on what
> they've done to the header to shoehorn PNG into ICOs, perhaps a new
> "Type" field (=2)..
I hadn't

about png-in-ico yet. If someone find information on the
exact format modifications, we can certainly make the ico loader support it.

Matthias