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Re: [PATCH] Setup icon
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>,"Cygwin-Apps" <cygwin-apps at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 09:08:55 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Setup icon
- References: <NCBBIHCHBLCMLBLOBONKMEPIDPAA.g.r.vansickle@worldnet.att.net>
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.