On Jul 31 21:21, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 30 July 2011 21:22, Andy Koppe wrote: > > On 30 July 2011 19:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> On Jul 29 21:29, Andy Koppe wrote: > >>> Attached is my take on this, with 64x64, 48x48, 32x32 showing > >>> fatbuttlarry's Cygwin symbol inside the Konsole icon, and 16x16 > >>> showing the Cygwin symbol only. > >> > >> Not bad, but the green border around the C is too dark to set the > >> C apart from the background. The border needs some light grey which > >> allows to recognize the C. > > > > I'm not sure how to do that, but the attached attempt turn up the > > saturation of the green outline. > > > > It also reduces the blurriness of the whole thing a bit. Apparently > > it's better to convert an SVG to a high-res bitmap and resize that > > down with a bitmap program such as Paint.net instead of converting the > > SVG straight to the target bitmap sizes (at least when using > > InkScape). > > > > The two attached icons differ at size 32: cygwin-terminal2.ico has the > > Cygwin-in-terminal there, whereas cygwin-terminal3.ico has just the > > Cygwin symbol. Size 32 shows up in the Windows 7 taskbar. > > Further to those two, here's one with the glowy Cygwin symbol all the > way from size 16 to 64. It's a "remastered" version of the one in > cygutils; a bit bigger and with the aforementioned brighter green > outline around the "C".
Thanks. But, hmm. The longer I play with it, the less I like the green glow. It adds an eerie touch to the C and it still doesn't set the C really apart on dark backgrounds. I think we should go with a grey outline. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat