On Wednesday 08 March 2006 19:36, Andrew Higgs wrote:
> Hi AJ,
>
> Sorry about taking so long to get back to you but I have been a little
> under the weather the last few days.
>
> I have read through this thread and it seems as though the ico's aren't
> really necessary. What do you think we sould do? It is pointless if no
> one is going to ude them.
Aye, that seems to be the general feeling.
>
> I have start to familiarise myself with creating icons on Linux and have
> one question I hope you can answer. Does the icon specification allow
> for transparency? All the ones I converted changed transparent to black.
That I would think is a bug in the converter, on image formats that support
transparency it definitely works, the standard types on Linux is png and xpm
and they both have alpha channel support.
>
> Perhaps an application which starts with a list of images to produce
> which allows users to select the files to be used for each one. This
> would allow people to either download one of the default sets or create
> their own. It could just shell execute a conversion tool.
I like this idea, let's suggest it to the list ?
>
> We should try to link to svg files. Most of the icon libraries appear to
> be svg at the moment.
Lazarus doesn't have any native support for SVG however, what happens with the
icon sets you download is they usually contain a script to scale from the SVG
to all the needed sizes - the reason they ship SVG is to make the download
smaller - because SVG scales without loss of quality, you can ship one set of
SVG's with a script and provide local xpm/png files for all the standard
sizes.
>
Ciao
A.J.
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