Release plans

[Damjan Jovanovic]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Steven Edwards <winehacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Damjan Jovanovic <damjan.jov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My latest patch set (http://source.winehq.org/patches/data/61966,
>> http://source.winehq.org/patches/data/61967,
>> http://source.winehq.org/patches/data/61968,
>> http://source.winehq.org/patches/data/61969,
>> http://source.winehq.org/patches/data/61970) moves all icon generation
>> in winemenubuilder to use windowscodecs and only outputs PNG icons.
>> This should make it pretty easy to add ICNS icon support.
>>
>> If you're going to test this before it gets committed, be sure to also
>> grab http://source.winehq.org/patches/data/61940 which fixes a nasty
>> bug in windowscodecs that corrupts many paletted ICO files. I think
>> this was the cause of the image corruption and RGB/BGR issue Steven
>> reported in his experiments with windowscodecs in early February.
>>
>> Jörg can you test whether you still get icons with black backgrounds
>> with these patches?
>
> YAY! This makes me feel like I was actually close to understanding how
> it all worked ;) Thanks for all of your work on this. Since I have no
> clue as to how we should actually implement icns support and how well
> it is documented I will try to merge in my Appbundler hack once this
> is all merged in to head.
>
> Thanks
> --
> Steven Edwards
>
> "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
> that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
>

ICNS seems like by far the easiest image file format in existence:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Icon_Image

Damjan