Hi

>> I would like to specify an icon to be used for xboard via autotools. So
>> I took the one from bitmap/icon_white.png and made the background
>> transparent, which seems to be the standard for most icons I have on my
>> desktop ;)
> 
> The only strange thing I notice is that this icon_white that you
> attached looks
> awfully much like a BLACK knight...

it used to have a white background, think that's where the name came from...

> Which is OK, as this is the icon we want. In Debian packages the icon is
> distributed as an .xpm file. I don't know if that is mandatory, or that any
> graphical format would do.

I looked a bit around and found that png or svg seem to be standard
formats. I would rather use svg, since it is scalable, but am not sure
if that's ok for all systems... any input on this?

Arun



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