Jody,

As I know, there is no need for icons with lower bit levels. Tango
Icon Theme Guidelines don't tell anything about icons with few colors
(and I never saw any recent app with someting like that).

Thank you.

On 7/26/07, Jody Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I ended up using the debian 'icoutils' to merge the new tango icons
> into a package for 1.7.11.  All the sizes are there, we're just
> missing the lower bit levels.  Does anyone know how fallback is
> handled in that case ?
>
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 09:50:08AM -0600, Ryan Pavlik wrote:
> > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
> > >>>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >>>>>> _______________________________________________
> > >>>>>> 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
> >
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