[GRASS-dev] grass ico - size (windows resampling)

Hi all,

recently I updated `grass.ico` to include also 64 and 128 sizes. Now
the icon file contains 128, 64, 48, 32, 24, 16 sizes. The icon is nice
on Gnome (128x128) but ugly on Windows (in my case 7) - it seems that
they are not taking the best size and doing some fancy resampling.
Anyone here who knows what could be wrong with the new icon?

Thanks, Martin

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Hi Martin,

did you have a try with a square-layers icon file (i.e. for layer 1 :
128x128 rather than 113x128) ?

Vincent

Le mardi 16 février 2016 à 09:48 +0100, Martin Landa a écrit :

Hi all,

recently I updated `grass.ico` to include also 64 and 128 sizes. Now
the icon file contains 128, 64, 48, 32, 24, 16 sizes. The icon is nice
on Gnome (128x128) but ugly on Windows (in my case 7) - it seems that
they are not taking the best size and doing some fancy resampling.
Anyone here who knows what could be wrong with the new icon?

Thanks, Martin

Martin,

attached is my grass.ico file. I cannot test it as I don't have any
windows OS here.
Layers are 8bit+alpha (non-compressed) deep.

Hope this helps,

Vincent.

(attachments)

grass_vb.png

Hi,

2016-02-25 8:28 GMT+01:00 Vincent Bain <bain@toraval.fr>:

attached is my grass.ico file. I cannot test it as I don't have any
windows OS here.
Layers are 8bit+alpha (non-compressed) deep.

yes, it's much more better! Could you please also "fix"
grass_osgeo.ico? Thanks! Martin

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Martin Landa
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http://gismentors.cz/mentors/landa

Good news. Concerning grass_osgeo icon, given both color spaces are very
close to each other, it is quite tricky to get a legible result. Here's
one suggestion (the grey grass background), and the original color
version.

V.

Le jeudi 25 février 2016 à 11:57 +0100, Martin Landa a écrit :

Hi,

2016-02-25 8:28 GMT+01:00 Vincent Bain <bain@toraval.fr>:
> attached is my grass.ico file. I cannot test it as I don't have any
> windows OS here.
> Layers are 8bit+alpha (non-compressed) deep.

yes, it's much more better! Could you please also "fix"
grass_osgeo.ico? Thanks! Martin

(attachments)

grass_osgeo_c.png
grass_osgeo_g.png

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 8:57 AM, Vincent Bain <bain@toraval.fr> wrote:

Concerning grass_osgeo icon, given both color spaces are very
close to each other, it is quite tricky to get a legible result. Here's
one suggestion (the grey grass background), and the original color
version.

I'm not sure in which context is this used but perhaps GRASS in color and
bw OSGeo would be more appropriate (considering that the colored thing is
primary).

I neither know in which circumstances it is to be used.
Maybe the grey tone has to be darken a bit, but I'm out of time this
afternoon...

Vincent.

Le jeudi 25 février 2016 à 09:06 -0500, Vaclav Petras a écrit :

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 8:57 AM, Vincent Bain <bain@toraval.fr> wrote:
        Concerning grass_osgeo icon, given both color spaces are very
        close to each other, it is quite tricky to get a legible
        result. Here's
        one suggestion (the grey grass background), and the original
        color
        version.

I'm not sure in which context is this used but perhaps GRASS in color
and bw OSGeo would be more appropriate (considering that the colored
thing is primary).

(attachments)

grass_osgeo_g.png

Hi,

2016-02-25 15:29 GMT+01:00 Vincent Bain <bain@toraval.fr>:

I neither know in which circumstances it is to be used.
Maybe the grey tone has to be darken a bit, but I'm out of time this
afternoon...

I uploaded to trunk this version (grass_osgeo.ico) together with
default version (grass.ico) in r67958. Testing of tomorrow's daily
build of trunk (Windows & Ubuntu) is welcomed. Thanks Vincent for
perfect job! Martin

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