On 24 Sep 2002 at 19:20, Nicolas Huillard wrote: > I'm looking for somewhere to find pretty icons for the editor (blue on gray > ones are not very good; not that would make better ones myself) : > * is there somewhere a library of free icons to pick from ? > * did someone already picked on this ? > * is there a special requirement for the format of these icons (PNG, 32bpp, > 21x22) ?
I agree they aren't very pretty. I was thinking of moving to some white on blue/purple like in the online help, which I think are pretty enough, and still readable on low bit depths. It is beneficial, though, if they can render legibly on systems with colors set to 256 colors (like mine). The dither is horrible and unreadable even on 256, so solid colors are used. IIRC, higher bitdepths were needed for transparency on the PNGs. There are curretly 5 image handlers that are included in the Desktop, which you can use for icons: -BMP -GIF -JPG -PNG -XPM PNG, GIF and JPG libraries were put in so that can preview those images in the editor. Probably over the longer haul, there will be a switch over to exclusively XPM for icons, as it eliminates the requirement for the PNG library, which is an extra dependency to worry about on POSIX. The xpms would be kept in a zip file for compression, and read from the zip as a zip filesystem. There is no requirement for 22x22. Feel free to use whatever size you fancy. The only thing to change is that if you open up the editor_dialog.xrc file, you will see parameters in the editor toolbar XML for the size of the bimaps to use. (Doing a search for 22 should bring you to the right spot). Just change those parameters, put in your different sized bimaps in the appropriate resource subdirectory and restart the desktop. (The nice part of XML resources, in action). Best wishes, Robert _______________________________________________ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
