On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:51:56AM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> Anybody have a 48x48 version of it, for use as a desktop icon?
It's a bit bigger than a typical KDE 1.x logo, although it's not much
bigger than the RealPlayer logo; it looks pretty good on my desktop.
> (I wonder whether KDE 2.x fixes the irritating misfeature of KDE 1.x,
> wherein only the non-transparent parts of a transparent icon respond to
> mouse events. I'll have to try that when I get around to installing 2.x
> on my home machine....
The previous transparent logo was transparent except in the "e", which
made it a pain to select on KDE; the new one has a larger opaque region,
so the KDE misfeature in question is less of a problem.
Is there a utility that can turn a PNG into a Windows icon? At least on
NT and W2K, it appears that Windows desktop icons have transparent areas
(i.e., as I remember, when I temporarily made my root
window^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hwallpaper a non-standard color, the stuff
behind the icons on my desktop changed to match, so the icons don't
appear to have a default-Windows-root-window color in the areas that
aren't part of the picture).
Also:
1) how does Windows handle "high color" vs. "low color"
desktops? At least some of the icons I've seen on my
desktops appear to be designed for color-rich desktops, but
presumably they have to do *something* on, say, 8-bit-color
desktops.
2) could the new icon be turned into a "low color" icon, so that
we have both "high color" and "low color" icons?
