Subject: Re: X/Cygwin icon proposal
From: Nahor <nahor@bravobrava.com>
Earle F. Philhower, III wrote:
Default to a safe icon format
"Beep, sorry, you're computer was taken over by the icon then crashed,
please reboot" :)
But anyway, the alpha *is* "safe" for other OS (well maybe not for NT,
but I haven't heard back from haro about icon_test9 which seems to work
fine for Alexander). It may not be to your taste but it is recognizable
as the X logo.
Looking really nasty under OSs earlier than XP is a bug I'd say. Plus
it's probably rechnically an invalid icon resource under those OSes so
you may wnd up causing a boom (hey, under 95 or 98 it doesn't take
much to crash the system!)
Or, fix the code to detect the OS. If OS>=Win5.0 use alpha icon,
OTW use standard icon. That can be done at runtime w/a few lines
of C.
Which one? The monochrome one? Or the one with the white background?
Maybe the old one with the white specks? And how do you do the "runtime"
thingy when XWin isn't running and Windows displays the icon in Explorer?
You've not very familiar with how a shortcut is made, are you? Make the
1st icon in the file the clean X-in-a-white-box that's been there for some
time. Windoze shortcuts then will use it by default.
Then, since you're so unhappy with the icon, submit a patch to the
x-create-shortcut-icons package that checks the OS version
and if it's XP or greater says create-shortcut w/icon 102, and voila...