Re: Old XPStyle icons

Dominik Guder wrote:
>
> Simon Large-5 wrote:
>> On 02/04/2008, Dominik Guder <osc_at_guder.org> wrote:
>>> If there is a consent for adding the old XPstyle icons again I would try
>>> to
>>> provide a patch for it.
>> The icons sources were all converted to vector format a while ago, and
>> the icon bitmaps are generated from these. This simplifies the
>> provision of huge bitmaps (256x256?) for Vista, but unfortunately
>> makes the smaller icons used almost everywhere else look much worse.
>> It would be nice if we could somehow combine hand crafted icons for
>> the small sizes with auto-generated icons for the larger ones. So if
>> you know a way of doing that, go for it.
>>
>> Simon
>>
>
> I could imagine that there are needs for 256x256 bitmaps. (I'm not using
> Vista neither at home nor in any vmware yet). And I didn't testes Tsvn 1.5
> on a xp machine. So for my single Win2K (vm) machine I could copy my
> favorite icon set to its parent folder. But this will be even harder if I
> would like to achieve this on my teammate XP machines too.
>
> For the bitmaps itself, unfortunately I'm not a designer and I'm not
> experienced in shell extension icons so I couldn't help you with automatic
> and handcrafted icon mix. What I proposed to do is a patch for setup files
> and provide the icon set (which is also in svn too).

You could create a new icon set (don't forget the new icons for
'unversioned' and 'ignored'). I removed the old XPStyle icons because it
didn't have those two new icons, and I already had to change the other
icons to get 256x256 sized png icons for Vista.

But I can't see your problem: Even though I'm using Vista here, I also
use XP in my office. And I always have explorer set to 'detailed view',
which means I'm always using the small icons - they look just fine to me.

Stefan

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