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RE: Shiny Icon
- From: Tim Hubberstey <thcyglist at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:41:52 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: RE: Shiny Icon
--- "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" wrote:
>
> At Thursday, October 28, 2004 3:58 PM, Max Bowsher wrote:
> > Nick wrote:
> >> Hey all. I made this shiny 32-bit 48x48 icon for Win XP, which
> >> you're free to use if you like that kind of thing. I just found
> that
> >> with the rest of my desktop being high-colour with drop shadows,
> >> that the Cygwin icon looked a bit plain. Have fun.
> >>
> >> http://sodawaterrhubarb.nickhowes.co.uk/cygwin.ico
> >
> > Anyone got any opinions on adopting this in setup.exe and
> base-files ?
> >
> > Max.
>
> I'm happy with the current one as the default. But one could always
> package
> it with base-files or make it available as a special download so
> people use
> it if it they prefer it.
>
> - Barry
I agree with Barry; make it an option. The icon doesn't display
properly if you're running with 16-bit color (it shows as mostly black)
so I think it is inappropriate to use it as the default.
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