[GRASS-dev] New GRASS Icons and Windows

[Hamish]

Marco Pasetti wrote:
> I think that there's a small *issue* with the new icons in Windows: I
> don't
> know how is the story on Vista (it seems it's becoming to be a problem
> developing on Windows and not having Vista to do tests...), but on XP
> icons
> must come as multiple icons to do a *good job*; on Linux that's not a
> problem, but XP just resizes icons and doesn't resample them (and that
> matters if they need to be displayed in a size different from the
> original).
> GRASS icons are in 64px size, while windows commonly uses 16 and 32px
> size.
> 
> I usually make icons in multiple format with the following sizes: 16,
> 24, 32 and 48 px. Using only the 64px size the icons on windows, even
> at 32px size,
> seem less definite and, surely, not beautiful as the originals. I
> attached an example that shows how icons appear on windows at 32px
> size (the most
> used, along with 16px size): on the left the original, on the right the
> modified version (I resized the original 64px icon to 16,24,32, and
> 48px images and saved all as multiple icon).


AFAIK lib/init/grass.ico is Windows specific, so Windows-ize it as
needed.
ISTR that Windows's .ico files could store multiple sizes within the same
file, yes?


Hamish




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