Colin, not sure if you saw this on the forum: http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=12723
Some of the community members have already been exploring alternate icon sets. On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Ameer Ali <ameerali...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have some great icon with me.... > If U request I will give for free > > > > Sent from my linux Phone > From: Colin Finck > Sent: 31-08-2013 PM 03:36 > To: ros-dev@reactos.org > Subject: [ros-dev] Easy job for enhancing our Explorer! > Hi all! > > As suggested in the meeting on Thursday, we need someone to create > replacements for all icons used in Windows Explorer. Just have a look at > this screenshot of Giannis' recent work to get an idea: > http://i.imgur.com/WzxVn7V.png > It definitely looks promising, but we obviously can't release it with > the XP icons ;) > > Gladly, the Tango icon library contains a lot of great icons, which may > already be suitable for Explorer. Others could be created easily when > mixing several icons. For example, the icon for the "Folders" button in > Explorer can be created out of two simple folders, and a single folder > icon is definitely present in Tango. This only requires basic knowledge > of Inkscape (www.inkscape.org). > > To give you another example: I already needed such "mixed" icons in my > PeopleMap. I've released my modified SVG files here: > http://svn.reactos.org/svn/web/trunk/resources/peoplemap/?pathrev=700 > > Apart from the fairly simple Inkscape task, the icons need to be > properly converted to ICO files in all required sizes. Giannis or other > shell guys can probably tell you about the sizes we need. > At least, this requires a proper icon editor with support for 24/32 bit > icons (used to be a problem in the past, don't know if it still is). > For just creating ICO files out of existing PNG files, I had good > experiences with "@icon sushi" (http://www.towofu.net/soft/e-aicon.php). > > So, there we have it: A job for enhancing our Explorer which doesn't > even need a developer! :) > If I had time for it, I'd probably do it myself, but I'm pretty sure > there are other interested people as well. > > > Cheers, > > Colin > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
