Hi folks The new icon with alpha looks quite bad on Windows 2000 and earlier systems, with a thick white border -- see the attachment PNG. The tips of the X on some of the other versions of the icon also look slightly blunt (minor quibble), and the top and bottom rows are lost at 16x16.
Presumably we shouldn't be setting the default to something that uses a feature unsupported by the majority of systems out there! Alpha is nice, but it is a new, optional feature; we still need to support low-colour desktops by default. Using the CVS icon as a starting point, I created a new icon using an outlined white square as the background. It is rendered at 16x16, 24x24 and 32x32 sizes, each for monochrome, 16 and 256 colours. It has the correct proportions of the thick and thin lines, properly anti-aliased and quantised. It's even rotationally invariant! :-) I have attached two files: a comparison of the icons in Overview.png, and the improved icon in Improved.ico. Cheers Michael
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