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[Fred Cooke <fred.cooke@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Jerry! :-)

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Jerry Jacobs <
xor.gate.engineering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> 2011/9/15 jp.charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Le 15/09/2011 11:07, fabrizio a écrit :
>>
>>> jean-pierre,
>>> ok, now worries, I guess I just did not upload them. well in
>>> attachment you can find the folder "icons" that I think should replace
>>> the current content of the "bitmaps_png/icons" folder. Inside there
>>> are all main .ico files for kicad as well as .icns files for user who
>>> what to build it for OS X.
>>>
>>> It would be great if OSX people could use these icons instead of the
>>> ones spread here and there.
>>>
>>> Also, I think the current version of Linux does not seem to use high
>>> resolution icons
>>>
>>> Let me know if in somehow do not meet your needs.
>>>
>>> cheers
>>> Fabrizio
>>>
>>>
>> I saw new .ico files (in icons.zip) are in 256x256 pixels.
>>
>> I don't know if this very large size is useful for OS X, but Windows needs
>> 32x32 pixels format.
>>
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> In OS X we have a icon format ranging from 16x16 till 1024x1024 pixels, so
> this is not really a problem.
>
>
>> 256x256 format gives very large files (350KB instead of 8KB) and are
>> always displayed as 16x16 or 32x32 pixels.
>> The icon_3d.ico file is useless (the 3D frame cannot be called outside
>> CvPcv or Pcbnew).
>> Under Windows the .ico files are used only to create a resource file, and
>> not inside sources.
>> Under linux, .ico files are not used.
>>
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> Under OS X the .icns files are used and copied inside the .app folders.
>
>
>> Only icon_kicad.xpm or icon_kicad.png are used, and only to create a
>> desktop shortcut to Kicad
>>
>> For desktop shortcuts, formats bigger than 48x48 (or perhaps 64x64) are
>> not very usable.
>> (You can display only few 256x256 icons on an usual monitor)
>>
>> So currently I am reluctant to change 32x32 or 48x48 icon files by 256x256
>> icon very large file
>>
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> I will recreate the .icns files from the svg sources by hand and you
> Linux/Windows people don't have to worry about it. If there are things that
> don't fit well I or other OS X people will comment on the suggestion(s) or
> email(s).
>
> Kind regards,
> Jerry
>
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