Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Windows Icon Doesn't Look Right

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 09:23:20 -0500 (CDT)
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Rick Farina wrote:

> Please forgive me if I am wrong, but if the icon *was* to be modified, would
> not the file size stay the same?  Seems to me all 32x32 pixel 256 color
> bitmaps are the same size.......no?

They could be different.  The icon file we're using contains 32x32 and
16x16 images with both 256 and 16 colors for a total of four images.  If
the Monty icon contains a different combination of image sizes and depths,
the file size would be different.  

> 
> -Rick Farina
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gerald Combs" <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Nick Almasy" <ALMASYN@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>; <Ethereal-Users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 17:34
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Windows Icon Doesn't Look Right
> 
> 
> On Wed, 22 May 2002, Nick Almasy wrote:
> 
> > And mine (with Burns), I downloaded last Friday, May 17 from (I think)
> > the Telia (SourceForge) mirror, version 0.9.3-1
> 
> Could you do the following?  (The exact steps may be different depending
> on the version of Windows you're running.)
> 
>   - Right-click on the Ethereal icon on your desktop, and select
>     "Properties".
> 
>   - Select the "Shortcut" tab.
> 
>   - Click on the "Change Icon..." button.
> 
>   - If the path to ethereal.exe isn't listed in the file name entry box,
>     click the "Browse..." button and navigate to it.
> 
> This will list the icon resources that are part of ethereal.exe.  You
> should only see the round Ethereal logo in the selection list.  If you
> see Monty Burns, your executable has likely been modified in some way.
> The size of ethereal.exe installed from the 0.9.3-1 installer on a machine
> here at work is 6,650,932 bytes.  What is its size on your machine?
> 
> 
> > >>> Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx> 05/22/02 03:01PM >>>
> > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:34:35AM -0500, Gerald Combs wrote:
> > > I'm pretty sure a Montgomery Burns icon doesn't come with the
> > Ethereal
> > > installer.
> >
> > Given that I don't have Montgomery on my desktop (I also don't have
> > background of Homer's profile stuffed into the "g" in "sgi", but
> > that's
> > another matter), but just the usual shiny gray-metal circle with an
> > "e"
> > on it, and I just installed 0.9.4 on my W2K desktop at work using the
> > installer, no, the Ethereal installer doesn't appear to give you a
> > Montgomery Burns icon for free.
> >
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