Icons, logos, Tango, consistency, the user experience, and our project looks like a 2D champaign flute

[André Hentschel]

Hi,
thanks for your work, its great. i just patch my wine with it ;)
The only negativ point would be the color for me. i rather would see it 
in "Windowsyellow" just to keep a bit of the look and feel.

Joel Holdsworth schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> Apologies if you've already read this - I've been having trouble
> getting the message to go through.
>
> I just had a play around with Tango-ifying Wine. The end result was
> quite pleasing. There aren't too many icons to deal with, so it's not a
> long job.
>
> All I've done here is swap out the shell32 icons, but I think the
> experience is definitely improved (see
> http://www.airwebreathe.org.uk/shell32.png ). Is it worth me submitting
> the patch?
>
> http://www.airwebreathe.org.uk/0001-Replaced-shell32-icons-with-Tango-icons.patch.txt
>
> I tried doing the same for user32 MessageBox icons, but the end result
> was less pleasing. These larger icons suffer from Wine's lack of alpha
> channel support when it comes to icon rendering. Semitransparent areas
> are rendered in black which looks yucky.
>
> I'm quite interested in pursuing this. I've been following wine for a
> long time, but I've never worked on the code. How hard is it likely to
> be for me, a wine newbie, to patch for icon alpha support?
>
> Joel
>
> On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 21:36 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
>   
>> The Ubuntu Studio logos look fine.
>> I'd be happy with adopting them if they really make Wine
>> fit in better with modern desktops.  No need to wait for 1.2,
>> just check 'em in now, 1.2 will be along soon enough.
>>
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