Howdy Nahor, For someone who's entire contribution to XWin has been an alpha-blended X icon you've got some loud opinions...
> Subject: Re: X/Cygwin icon proposal > From: Nahor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Earle F. Philhower, III wrote: > > Default to a safe icon format > "Beep, sorry, you're computer was taken over by the icon then crashed, > please reboot" :) > But anyway, the alpha *is* "safe" for other OS (well maybe not for NT, > but I haven't heard back from haro about icon_test9 which seems to work > fine for Alexander). It may not be to your taste but it is recognizable > as the X logo. Looking really nasty under OSs earlier than XP is a bug I'd say. Plus it's probably rechnically an invalid icon resource under those OSes so you may wnd up causing a boom (hey, under 95 or 98 it doesn't take much to crash the system!) > > Or, fix the code to detect the OS. If OS>=Win5.0 use alpha icon, > > OTW use standard icon. That can be done at runtime w/a few lines > > of C. > Which one? The monochrome one? Or the one with the white background? > Maybe the old one with the white specks? And how do you do the "runtime" > thingy when XWin isn't running and Windows displays the icon in Explorer? You've not very familiar with how a shortcut is made, are you? Make the 1st icon in the file the clean X-in-a-white-box that's been there for some time. Windoze shortcuts then will use it by default. Then, since you're so unhappy with the icon, submit a patch to the x-create-shortcut-icons package that checks the OS version and if it's XP or greater says create-shortcut w/icon 102, and voila... > Maybe Halrold should only distribute the source code, and let people > recompile xwin.exe by themselves that way they can choose their own > prefered icon for the binary. It's already there in CVS and his test releases, have a ball! -- -Earle F. Philhower, III [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ziplabel.com
