Hi,

I have a need for a new icon in Wine and I'm hoping somebody with some 
graphics-design skills might be able to create it.

The Mac driver attempts to extract an icon from the executable to use for the 
Dock icon of its process.  This is also the icon that appears in the 
Command-Tab application switcher.  This often works, but not always.  When it 
doesn't, the Dock just uses the generic "Unix executable" icon from Mac OS X.  
You can see that here: <http://i.imgur.com/b1JrMDJ.png>.  It's not very nice.

I would prefer to have a Wine-specific generic program icon.


Any graphic designer care to take on the task of creating such an icon?


I'm told Wine has been using the Tango icons as the template for its.  Tango 
provides application-x-executable.svg at 
<http://cgit.freedesktop.org/tango/tango-icon-theme/tree/svg> that might be 
suitable.  That could be badged with the Wine glass logo to produce an icon for 
a program running under Wine.

On the other hand, if this icon were to be used only by the Mac driver, it 
might be more appropriate to use a Mac-themed icon.

Some time back, Jeremiah posted an archive of icons.  
<http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2013-February/098783.html>  That 
included one which had a miniature Mac window badged with the Wine glass logo.  
I'm not sure of the copyright/licensing situation with that icon.  It's 
bitmap-only, not vector, but that might be fine for a Mac-only icon.  It does 
have some issues with rough edges around the window, rather than a smooth 
alpha-blended edge.

Although Mac app icons can go up to 1024x1024 pixels (512x512 "points" at 2x 
resolution for Retina displays), this icon would only appear in the Dock and 
the application switcher.  So, it needn't be larger than 256x256 pixels 
(128x128@2x).

Thanks,
Ken



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