On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Warren Dumortier nwarrenfl@gmail.com wrote:
2009/4/17 Roderick Colenbrander thunderbird2k@gmail.com:
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Joel Holdsworth joel@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....
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...
We do support transparency. Fancy alpha blending effects might not work but this should work I think. It might depend on the file type which was used and perhaps the setting of a color key in a palette (look for other wine apps which uses, some of them must be using transparency). Further apps like Office 2007 must also be using it and the app looks fine.
Roderick