Subject: Re: the AW document icon
From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Fri Nov 02 2001 - 10:10:47 CST
MSVC does icons,
you can paste it from the cliboard into a blank icon (and then set
transparency if you want) and save it.
if you send me the PNG/Tiff/XPM ill try and convert it, although 48x48
icons dont scale well to 32x32
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Quoting Tomas Frydrych <tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net>:
>
> >
> > I have just caused a stir at the University because when installing
> > AW for my personal use I forgot to tell it not to associate .doc files
> > with AW. The folk whose word doc's suddenly changed their icon
> > to the AW doc icon panicked, because the look of the icon made
> > them think that their files have been infected by some virus (and I
> > can see why), perhaps we might consider changing the document
> > icon to something less 'threatening'; as much as I like the ant, I
> > think I prefered the old doc icon with the fancy 'A'.
>
> The "A" would be cool. Also, there is a PNG/TIFF/XPM icon that the Gnome folks
> are using in abidistfiles/icons - if you rescaled that and converted it to ICO
> (gimp 1.2.2 doesn't save as ICO and my copy of photoslop 5.5 doesn't either)
> they should work just fine. IMO it's a really pretty icon.
>
> Dom
>
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