2009/4/17 Roderick Colenbrander <thunderbir...@gmail.com>: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Joel Holdsworth > <j...@airwebreathe.org.uk> wrote: >> 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 >> > > I wouldn't be against having these patches in Wine. Half a year or so > ago I was also looking at this but at that time this icon set was > still under the creative commons license. The developers were willing > to relicense the icons under the LGPL (they also mentioned that > eventually the icons would become public domain but at that time it > looked to happen months away). I'm glad that they are public domain > now. > > Roderick > > >
Congrats, it looks very nice and i hope it'll be included in the near future. Are there plans to support transparency? I hate to see a black background with icons...
