On 1 August 2011 21:05, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 1 August 2011 09:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> 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 > > Now what's wrong with that? Cygwin - mean and a bit eerie. ;) > >> and it still doesn't set the C >> really apart on dark backgrounds. > > I disagree, looking at a desktop with a darkish picture and dark grey > taskbar and window borders. > >> I think we should go with a grey outline. > > I did eventually work out how to turn the outline of fatbuttlarry's > icon grey. See attachments.
Having used both variants for a while, I agree that a grey outline does look better. Andy