[PATCH] Setup icon

Tue Apr 1 08:09:00 GMT 2003

Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> 
> <head in hands, laughing to keep from crying> ;-)

Don't cry Gary! :-)

> No, it's easy to change.  I just did it.  It goes from 30K to 7K.  I made
> it 24-bit so we'd be ready for "future enhancements" (i.e. a
> fancier-looking icon, maybe with that "3-D" look the kids are all into
> these days), but of course who knows when that lightning might strike. 
> The 16-color version attached, same resolutions, same Changelog.
> 
> I don't have UPX (downloading it an several tens of meg of other stuff
> over "Ol' Pokey" now), but since it is currently only 3-color
> (transparent), it should compress extremely well I'd think.  If they both
> compress to pretty similar sizes, I'd say use the 24-bit one so there's
> one less hurdle for somebody to cross if they want to make a more
> colorful Cygwin Staple ;-). 

upx won't compress the icon, since if it did, Windows couldn't display it.

Nevertheless, 7K seems OK to me. Robert?

Max.