Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 16 19:40, Andy Koppe wrote: On 16 August 2011 15:31, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I don't have an original other that what Warren sent:  http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/beveled-noshadow-rasterized.xcf  http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/beveled-for-small-composites.xcf Everything I did

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-17 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/17/2011 11:46 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 16 13:28, Warren Young wrote: The hippo model is free in the same way most fonts are free: I can't legally give you copies of the mesh and textures, but I can produce as many pixels as I'd like using it, and donate those pixels to an open

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 15 11:52, Warren Young wrote: On 8/12/2011 12:59 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 11 15:06, Warren Young wrote: I haven't forgotten about my attempt, by the way. It's just become a bigger project than anticipated. I guess you're not waiting on me, which is fine. No, no, I'm

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 15 15:09, Warren Young wrote: On 8/15/2011 1:52 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 15 August 2011 18:52, Warren Young wrote: I present to you now, my magnum opus: http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/boxed-hippo.ico Now *that*, my friends, is an angry hippo. :) That is rather

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 15 20:46, Andy Koppe wrote: On 14 August 2011 12:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Your attempts at 16x16, 24x24, and 32x32 definitely look better than mine.  Also, somehow I seem to have broken the terminal frame in 32x32. I didn't notice that before, but in direct comparison with your

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-16 Thread Andy Koppe
On 16 August 2011 10:08, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 15 20:46, Andy Koppe wrote: On 14 August 2011 12:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Your attempts at 16x16, 24x24, and 32x32 definitely look better than mine.  Also, somehow I seem to have broken the terminal frame in 32x32. I didn't notice

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 16 15:16, Andy Koppe wrote: On 16 August 2011 10:08, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I created a new 64x64 icon with smaller C.  Other than that I made a longish comparison of the small 16x16 and 24x24 icons on various backgrounds, and in contrast to what I said above, I think I prefer the

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-16 Thread Warren Young
On 8/16/2011 1:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 15 11:52, Warren Young wrote: Now *that*, my friends, is an angry hippo. Boy, is she pissed. I would be, too, if I had been confined to the box that long. The other way to look at it is that she is about to be unleashed upon the world.

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-16 Thread Andy Koppe
On 16 August 2011 15:31, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 16 15:16, Andy Koppe wrote: On 16 August 2011 10:08, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I created a new 64x64 icon with smaller C.  Other than that I made a longish comparison of the small 16x16 and 24x24 icons on various backgrounds, and in

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-16 Thread Warren Young
On 8/16/2011 2:35 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On 15 August 2011 18:52, Warren Young wrote: The problem for me is that the Cygwin C is only a sidenote now, and that it lost its color. On purpose. Few cardboard boxes have full-color logos on them. It would be trivial to bring back the color

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-15 Thread Warren Young
On 8/12/2011 3:12 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Turns out, 256 is too big for the splash screen. Looking for a nice size, I found that 1064, the size of the rasterized original icon, dived by 7 is 152, which looks like the ideal size for the dialog icon. So I added a 152x152 icon to cygwin.ico,

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-15 Thread Warren Young
On 8/14/2011 5:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 14 09:18, Andy Koppe wrote: On 27 July 2011 18:30, Warren Young wrote: - Do we need more sizes? I've seen reference to odd sizes like 64x64 and 96x96, but surely we can trust Vista+ to scale the 256x256 to these sizes without needing

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-15 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/15/2011 10:33 AM, Warren Young wrote: The hard edges in the original art are causing stair-stepping when doing a direct downsample, though. (Look at the pointy bits.) By blurring the high-res version and then downsampling by a non-integral amount, you can get a much smoother result.

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 15 08:33, Warren Young wrote: On 8/12/2011 3:12 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Turns out, 256 is too big for the splash screen. Looking for a nice size, I found that 1064, the size of the rasterized original icon, dived by 7 is 152, which looks like the ideal size for the dialog icon.

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 15 11:44, Charles Wilson wrote: On 8/15/2011 10:33 AM, Warren Young wrote: The hard edges in the original art are causing stair-stepping when doing a direct downsample, though. (Look at the pointy bits.) By blurring the high-res version and then downsampling by a non-integral

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 15 08:44, Warren Young wrote: On 8/14/2011 5:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: You're saving 12K or so. Given that we already have the icons, is it worth it to delete them for just a few K? Are you calculating the setup.exe size delta after upx, or are you looking at the .ico file?

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-15 Thread Warren Young
On 8/12/2011 12:59 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 11 15:06, Warren Young wrote: I haven't forgotten about my attempt, by the way. It's just become a bigger project than anticipated. I guess you're not waiting on me, which is fine. No, no, I'm curious. I present to you now, my magnum

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-15 Thread Chris Sutcliffe
On 15/08/2011 1:52 PM, Warren Young wrote: I present to you now, my magnum opus: http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/boxed-hippo.ico Now *that*, my friends, is an angry hippo. When I try to grab the file I get an error stating it's malformed. Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe ir0nh...@gmail.com

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-15 Thread Warren Young
On 8/15/2011 9:44 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: On 8/15/2011 10:33 AM, Warren Young wrote: The hard edges in the original art are causing stair-stepping when doing a direct downsample, though. (Look at the pointy bits.) By blurring the high-res version and then downsampling by a non-integral

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-15 Thread Warren Young
On 8/15/2011 11:58 AM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote: On 15/08/2011 1:52 PM, Warren Young wrote: I present to you now, my magnum opus: http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/boxed-hippo.ico Now *that*, my friends, is an angry hippo. When I try to grab the file I get an error stating it's malformed.

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-15 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/15/2011 11:59 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Are you talking about recent gimp versions? I wasn't talking specifically about any GIMP version -- I was surmising based on what you guys described as GIMP's behavior. In my gimp I have the choice of four different interpolation algorithms,

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-15 Thread Andy Koppe
On 15 August 2011 18:52, Warren Young wrote: I present to you now, my magnum opus:        http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/boxed-hippo.ico Now *that*, my friends, is an angry hippo. :) That is rather impressive, and yep, that's not a happy hippo. Is this just for fun or are you proposing

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-15 Thread Warren Young
On 8/15/2011 1:52 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 15 August 2011 18:52, Warren Young wrote: I present to you now, my magnum opus: http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/boxed-hippo.ico Now *that*, my friends, is an angry hippo. :) That is rather impressive, and yep, that's not a happy hippo. Is

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-14 Thread Andy Koppe
On 27 July 2011 18:30, Warren Young wrote: - Do we need more sizes?  I've seen reference to odd sizes like 64x64 and 96x96, but surely we can trust Vista+ to scale the 256x256 to these sizes without needing hand-tweaked versions? Picking up on an old point here. As Warren suggests, the 64x64

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 13 21:35, Andy Koppe wrote: On 13 August 2011 08:58, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 12 20:37, Andy Koppe wrote: There's no rush.  Even if I check in the current icons to the setup repository, we're not quite finished anyway.  Andy was trying to take another stab at the smaller

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 14 09:18, Andy Koppe wrote: On 27 July 2011 18:30, Warren Young wrote: - Do we need more sizes?  I've seen reference to odd sizes like 64x64 and 96x96, but surely we can trust Vista+ to scale the 256x256 to these sizes without needing hand-tweaked versions? Picking up on an old

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-13 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 12 20:37, Andy Koppe wrote: On 12 August 2011 07:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 11 15:06, Warren Young wrote: I haven't forgotten about my attempt, by the way.  It's just become a bigger project than anticipated.  I guess you're not waiting on me, which is fine. No, no, I'm

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 11 15:06, Warren Young wrote: On 8/11/2011 4:38 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: New incarnation uploaded. Same URL. Is that better? Yes, thanks. I didn't feel up to the task to resize the stroke, btw., so I just made it slightly darker before resizing. This seems to have to do the

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-12 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 12 08:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Oh, and, I'd still *love* to use the 256x256 setup icon in the splash screen dialog, if I'd only know how to do that. Got it! If you specify SS_REALSIZEIMAGE in the ICON control statement, then the dialog uses the original size of the icon, rather than

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-12 Thread Andy Koppe
On 12 August 2011 07:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 11 15:06, Warren Young wrote: On 8/11/2011 4:38 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: New incarnation uploaded.  Same URL.  Is that better? Yes, thanks. I didn't feel up to the task to resize the stroke, btw., so I just made it slightly

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-12 Thread Andy Koppe
On 12 August 2011 10:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 12 08:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Oh, and, I'd still *love* to use the 256x256 setup icon in the splash screen dialog, if I'd only know how to do that. Got it!  If you specify SS_REALSIZEIMAGE in the ICON control statement, then the

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-11 Thread Warren Young
On 8/11/2011 4:38 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: New incarnation uploaded. Same URL. Is that better? Yes, thanks. I haven't forgotten about my attempt, by the way. It's just become a bigger project than anticipated. I guess you're not waiting on me, which is fine.

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-10 Thread Warren Young
On 8/9/2011 1:25 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Erm... say that again? Here's where you're losing me. I don't even know how to make the stroke thicker unless it would be a big, square block. Elaborating on steps I gave a few messages up the thread: - enlarge the canvas to make room (Image

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 10 02:47, Warren Young wrote: On 8/9/2011 1:25 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Erm... say that again? Here's where you're losing me. I don't even know how to make the stroke thicker unless it would be a big, square block. Elaborating on steps I gave a few messages up the thread: -

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 10 02:47, Warren Young wrote: http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/terminal-with-c-aa-32.png That's http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/mintty-icon/terminal-with-c-aa-32.png btw. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 10 12:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 10 02:47, Warren Young wrote: On 8/9/2011 1:25 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Erm... say that again? Here's where you're losing me. I don't even know how to make the stroke thicker unless it would be a big, square block. Elaborating

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-10 Thread Warren Young
On 8/10/2011 4:23 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 10 12:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: That looks excellent, IMHO. Can I just grab it for the official 32x32 terminal icon? There's no reason I should duplicate the work, right? ;) Thanks. I jumped into this icon project to contribute, so,

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 8 16:37, Warren Young wrote: On 8/8/2011 2:45 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 8 10:57, Warren Young wrote: Did you figure out your problem seeing the 256 px icon? I'm not sure what problem you mean. I can see the 256x256 icon just fine. I was half-remembering this message:

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 8 16:28, Warren Young wrote: On 8/8/2011 2:43 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: If you have a way to create a C which is not handdrawn *and* stands out, I would very much like to see it. That's why I quoted Andy: increasing the stroke width can help. By starting with a much thicker

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 9 09:17, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 8 16:37, Warren Young wrote: On 8/8/2011 2:45 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 8 10:57, Warren Young wrote: Did you figure out your problem seeing the 256 px icon? I'm not sure what problem you mean. I can see the 256x256 icon

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-08 Thread Warren Young
On 8/6/2011 11:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Makes sense. If the outline needs to be any brighter, it would need to be thickened before scaling down. One way to do this without involving me: - enlarge the canvas to make room - right click stroke layer, alpha to selection - select grow -

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-08 Thread Warren Young
On 8/7/2011 4:08 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: the C with a thicker stroke, say twice as thick? (If you think I could easily do that myself, just say so.) So. :) See my reply above.

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-08 Thread Warren Young
On 8/6/2011 2:28 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Is that one ok as default Cygwin icon? Works for me. Did you figure out your problem seeing the 256 px icon? Was it just a caching issue? If not, I wondered if reordering the icons in the aggregate .ico file would help, so they're sorted

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-08 Thread Warren Young
On 8/6/2011 12:27 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Now for the setup icon... Here it is. The 32x32 icon is the most tricky one and needed some convincing to look acceptable. I'd make the C smaller in all of them, especially the 32x32. Please point me to the box art. I want to try. I also

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 8 11:10, Warren Young wrote: On 8/6/2011 12:27 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Now for the setup icon... Here it is. The 32x32 icon is the most tricky one and needed some convincing to look acceptable. I'd make the C smaller in all of them, especially the 32x32. Please point me to

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 8 10:42, Warren Young wrote: On 8/6/2011 11:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Makes sense. If the outline needs to be any brighter, it would need to be thickened before scaling down. Oops, that's a quote from Andy. One way to do this without involving me: - enlarge the canvas to

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 8 10:57, Warren Young wrote: On 8/6/2011 2:28 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Is that one ok as default Cygwin icon? Works for me. Did you figure out your problem seeing the 256 px icon? Was it just a caching issue? If not, I wondered if reordering the icons in the aggregate .ico

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-08 Thread Warren Young
On 8/8/2011 2:43 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: If you have a way to create a C which is not handdrawn *and* stands out, I would very much like to see it. That's why I quoted Andy: increasing the stroke width can help. By starting with a much thicker outer stroke, you end up with a brighter

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-08 Thread Warren Young
On 8/8/2011 2:45 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 8 10:57, Warren Young wrote: Did you figure out your problem seeing the 256 px icon? I'm not sure what problem you mean. I can see the 256x256 icon just fine. I was half-remembering this message:

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-07 Thread Andy Koppe
On 6 August 2011 19:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug  6 19:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug  6 11:47, Andy Koppe wrote: On 6 August 2011 09:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug  5 11:35, Warren Young wrote: However, I have made a fully rasterized, layered version compatible with

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-06 Thread Andy Koppe
On 6 August 2011 09:28, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug  5 11:35, Warren Young wrote: On 8/3/2011 11:49 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: Warren's has the advantage of a 256 version and that it's more tweakable assuming he provides the vector version it's presumably based on. Sorry, there is currently

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-05 Thread Andy Koppe
On 4 August 2011 15:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug  4 09:19, Charles Wilson wrote: On 8/4/2011 4:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Sure!  I would be more happy with the fatbuttlarry icon if it would be available in a nice 256x256 variation, though.  That's really a big plus of Warren's

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-05 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/5/2011 11:05 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 4 August 2011 15:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 4 09:19, Charles Wilson wrote: Here (well, it's 237x258 but that's nothing that can't be fixed with little GIMP). Nice, thank you. Ditto. Where did you find that? It's at the same place I got

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-05 Thread Warren Young
On 8/3/2011 11:49 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: Warren's has the advantage of a 256 version and that it's more tweakable assuming he provides the vector version it's presumably based on. Sorry, there is currently no vector version. Effects like bevels and shadows are raster effects. However, based

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-05 Thread Warren Young
On 8/4/2011 12:16 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug 4 13:24, Charles Wilson wrote: On 8/4/2011 10:29 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Nice, thank you. Do you know how to convert the green glow around the C to grey, by any chance? Not...exactly. I think you should be able to use the magic wand

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-05 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 5 10:13, Warren Young wrote: On 8/5/2011 9:05 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: Do you know how to convert the green glow around the C to grey, by any chance? Here's what I did, in Paint.net. I very much suspect there are better ways. The right way is to use Levels. Ctrl-L in Photoshop and

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-05 Thread Warren Young
On 8/5/2011 11:50 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: You could also try moving the gamma slider, either alone, or in combination with the above to keep the blacks where you want them. I don't understand this. If I do that, the black C and especially the highlights in the C are getting whiter and

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-05 Thread Andy Koppe
On 5 August 2011 18:35, Warren Young wrote: On 8/3/2011 11:49 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: Warren's has the advantage of a 256 version and that it's more tweakable assuming he provides the vector version it's presumably based on. Sorry, there is currently no vector version.  Effects like bevels

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-05 Thread Andy Koppe
On 5 August 2011 16:57, Charles Wilson wrote: On 8/5/2011 11:05 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 4 August 2011 15:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug  4 09:19, Charles Wilson wrote: Here (well, it's 237x258 but that's nothing that can't be fixed with little GIMP). Nice, thank you. Ditto. Where did

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-05 Thread Warren Young
On 8/5/2011 1:08 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: I like this a lot. Thanks very much for responding so positively to my whinging. Let me know if you need to see any other changes. I think a large part of the problem is tl;dr, and the resultant talking past each other. I know it's true for me. I've

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 4 06:49, Andy Koppe wrote: On 2 August 2011 16:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I tried your icons on my desktop and the standalone icon looks good.  In the terminal icons the beveled C looks better than the fatbuttlarry C, cleaner, crisper. I think it would be better to stick to one.

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-04 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/4/2011 4:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Sure! I would be more happy with the fatbuttlarry icon if it would be available in a nice 256x256 variation, though. That's really a big plus of Warren's version. Here (well, it's 237x258 but that's nothing that can't be fixed with little GIMP).

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 4 09:19, Charles Wilson wrote: On 8/4/2011 4:39 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Sure! I would be more happy with the fatbuttlarry icon if it would be available in a nice 256x256 variation, though. That's really a big plus of Warren's version. Here (well, it's 237x258 but that's

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-04 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/4/2011 10:29 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Nice, thank you. Do you know how to convert the green glow around the C to grey, by any chance? Not...exactly. I think you should be able to use the magic wand selection tool (with appropriate options), and then apply a desaturate or color shift

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-04 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 4 13:24, Charles Wilson wrote: On 8/4/2011 10:29 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Nice, thank you. Do you know how to convert the green glow around the C to grey, by any chance? Not...exactly. I think you should be able to use the magic wand selection tool (with appropriate options),

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 3 06:54, Andy Koppe wrote: On 2 August 2011 17:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug  2 11:45, Charles Wilson wrote: On 8/2/2011 11:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I guess we're getting close to the end result now. So, how are you (Andy, Corinna) planning to handle the .ico file(s)

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-03 Thread Andy Koppe
On 2 August 2011 16:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug  2 15:49, Andy Koppe wrote: On 1 August 2011 21:05, Andy Koppe wrote: On 1 August 2011 09:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 31 21:21, Andy Koppe wrote: On 30 July 2011 21:22, Andy Koppe wrote: On 30 July 2011 19:36, Corinna

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-02 Thread Andy Koppe
On 1 August 2011 21:05, Andy Koppe wrote: On 1 August 2011 09:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 31 21:21, Andy Koppe wrote: On 30 July 2011 21:22, Andy Koppe wrote: On 30 July 2011 19:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 29 21:29, Andy Koppe wrote: Attached is my take on this, with 64x64,

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 2 15:49, Andy Koppe wrote: On 1 August 2011 21:05, Andy Koppe wrote: On 1 August 2011 09:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 31 21:21, Andy Koppe wrote: On 30 July 2011 21:22, Andy Koppe wrote: On 30 July 2011 19:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 29 21:29, Andy Koppe wrote:

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-02 Thread Charles Wilson
On 8/2/2011 11:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I guess we're getting close to the end result now. So, how are you (Andy, Corinna) planning to handle the .ico file(s) themselves? Are you 1. (Andy) planning to put it/them into the mintty executable as resource(s), 2. ship the .ico file(s) in '/'

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 2 11:45, Charles Wilson wrote: On 8/2/2011 11:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I guess we're getting close to the end result now. So, how are you (Andy, Corinna) planning to handle the .ico file(s) themselves? Are you 1. (Andy) planning to put it/them into the mintty executable as

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-02 Thread Andy Koppe
On 2 August 2011 17:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Aug  2 11:45, Charles Wilson wrote: On 8/2/2011 11:24 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: I guess we're getting close to the end result now. So, how are you (Andy, Corinna) planning to handle the .ico file(s) themselves?  Are you 1. (Andy)

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-08-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 31 21:21, Andy Koppe wrote: On 30 July 2011 21:22, Andy Koppe wrote: On 30 July 2011 19:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 29 21:29, Andy Koppe wrote: Attached is my take on this, with 64x64, 48x48, 32x32 showing fatbuttlarry's Cygwin symbol inside the Konsole icon, and 16x16

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-31 Thread Andy Koppe
On 29 July 2011 15:11, Warren Young wrote: Here's a version with heavy chiseled bevels and shadows added:    http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/beveled.ico The bevel depth and style can of course be varied, as can the shadow angle, opacity, etc.  If you don't like it but can describe what you'd

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-31 Thread Andy Koppe
On 30 July 2011 21:22, Andy Koppe wrote: On 30 July 2011 19:36, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 29 21:29, Andy Koppe wrote: Attached is my take on this, with 64x64, 48x48, 32x32 showing fatbuttlarry's Cygwin symbol inside the Konsole icon, and 16x16 showing the Cygwin symbol only. Not bad,

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 29 08:11, Warren Young wrote: On 7/29/2011 3:42 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 29 03:14, Warren Young wrote: Is there official vector logo art I can use? I don't think so, sorry. Okay, here's my take: http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/traced-icon.svg This should

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 29 10:21, Warren Young wrote: Couldn't resist doing another. I call this one The Matrix: http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/matrix.ico Heh, funny. But again, probably not feasible in smaller sizes. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 29 21:29, Andy Koppe wrote: Attached is my take on this, with 64x64, 48x48, 32x32 showing fatbuttlarry's Cygwin symbol inside the Konsole icon, and 16x16 showing the Cygwin symbol only. Not bad, but the green border around the C is too dark to set the C apart from the background. The

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-29 Thread Warren Young
Collecting all Corinna reply answers here: On 7/28/2011 3:08 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: It seems that black was a bad choice for the Cygwin C. Is there a reason we cannot change it now? I don't see that Red Hat has filed a US trademark on the logo. Even if they had, it's usually better

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 29 03:14, Warren Young wrote: Collecting all Corinna reply answers here: On 7/28/2011 3:08 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: It seems that black was a bad choice for the Cygwin C. Is there a reason we cannot change it now? I don't see that Red Hat has filed a US trademark on the logo.

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 29 11:42, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 29 03:14, Warren Young wrote: We can mix-and-match. We could go for a lone Konsole icon for the smaller sizes and add the Cygwin C only at larger sizes, for example. That's one of the freedoms you buy when you include multiple sizes in a

RE: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-29 Thread Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
Warren Young sent the following at Friday, July 29, 2011 10:12 AM http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/glowing.ico http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/logo-glowing.ico

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-29 Thread Warren Young
On 7/29/2011 9:21 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote: Warren Young sent the following at Friday, July 29, 2011 10:12 AM http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/glowing.ico http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/logo-glowing.ico I've fixed it so the original URL is correct. (None of the

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-29 Thread Warren Young
Couldn't resist doing another. I call this one The Matrix: http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/matrix.ico

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-29 Thread Andy Koppe
On 29 July 2011 15:11, Warren Young wrote: On 7/29/2011 3:42 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 29 03:14, Warren Young wrote: Is there official vector logo art I can use? I don't think so, sorry. Okay, here's my take:    http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/traced-icon.svg This should probably

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 29 08:11, Warren Young wrote: On 7/29/2011 3:42 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 29 03:14, Warren Young wrote: Is there official vector logo art I can use? I don't think so, sorry. Okay, here's my take: http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/logo/traced-icon.svg [...] I'm too tired

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Warren, Hi Andy, On Jul 28 06:50, Andy Koppe wrote: On 27 July 2011 22:11, Warren Young wrote: http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/mintty-icon/no-text.ico That looks a lot better, thanks. Nice work removing the prompt. Did you go back to the original SVG to do that? It also has the gray

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 28 11:08, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi Warren, Hi Andy, On Jul 28 06:50, Andy Koppe wrote: On 27 July 2011 22:11, Warren Young wrote: http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/mintty-icon/no-text.ico That looks a lot better, thanks. Nice work removing the prompt. Did you go back to the

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-28 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 28 12:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 28 11:08, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Hi Warren, Hi Andy, On Jul 28 06:50, Andy Koppe wrote: On 27 July 2011 22:11, Warren Young wrote: http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/mintty-icon/no-text.ico [...] Actually, the longer I see the 48x48

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 26 06:54, Warren Young wrote: On 7/26/2011 5:01 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: This discussion reminds me of the new icon format in Vista, which support icons of up to 256x256 bytes in PNG format. Pixels, not bytes, unless you were thinking about 8 bpp paletted images. Right, pixels.

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-27 Thread Warren Young
On 7/27/2011 1:41 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: You say you already have created such icon files before. Would you have fun to create a new official cygwin.ico? Here you go: http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/mintty-icon/combined.ico That file contains a 256 px 32 bpp (RGBA) Vista (PNG) icon

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-27 Thread Andy Koppe
On 27 July 2011 18:30, Warren Young wrote: On 7/27/2011 1:41 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: You say you already have created such icon files before.  Would you have fun to create a new official cygwin.ico? Here you go:        http://etr-usa.com/cygwin/mintty-icon/combined.ico That file

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-27 Thread Warren Young
On 7/27/2011 2:04 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: - The 16x16 has white dots in the corners. That was a feature. But you no like it, I make go 'way. - There are black edges around the icons. Those need to be transparent. Why? I purposely redrew the edges in the smaller icons for contrast and

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-27 Thread Charles Wilson
On 7/27/2011 1:30 PM, Warren Young wrote: - Do we need more sizes? I've seen reference to odd sizes like 64x64 and 96x96, but surely we can trust Vista+ to scale the 256x256 to these sizes without needing hand-tweaked versions? - Something I read talked about the 16x16 being 4bpp, but I

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-27 Thread Andy Koppe
On 27 July 2011 22:11, Warren Young wrote: On 7/27/2011 2:04 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: - The 16x16 has white dots in the corners. That was a feature. But you no like it, I make go 'way. Thanks. - There are black edges around the icons. Those need to be transparent. Why? I purposely redrew

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-27 Thread Andy Koppe
On 27 July 2011 23:26, Charles Wilson wrote: the fatbuttlarry icon is GPL. not sure about the KDE Konsole icon. It's LGPL. Andy

Re: 256x256 px icons

2011-07-26 Thread Warren Young
On 7/26/2011 5:01 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: This discussion reminds me of the new icon format in Vista, which support icons of up to 256x256 bytes in PNG format. Pixels, not bytes, unless you were thinking about 8 bpp paletted images. I don't see -- in the almost nonexistent docs -- that