[Bug 9141] Colored Cards in Cards.dll

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9141

--- Comment #11 from Joel Holdsworth  2011-10-07 03:15:34 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> Joel, any interest in making some nice images? :)

I did consider it, but the following issues are in my mind.

First, the icons should not be Tango styled - that style is only for icons, and
if not Tango then what? Maybe something flat and minimal.

Second, it would be a chunk of work to produce a set from scratch, with minimal
benefit to the FOSS desktop. Which means that I feel my efforts maybe better
spend else where (- I'm currently doing things with FreeCAD, which will soon
fill an important gap in our application space).

Third, there is one low hanging fruit: to take an SVG LGPL set such as Gnome's
and produce a rendering script that works with rsvg to render these into bmps,
in a similar way to the build-icon script. However, these bmps would ideally be
32-bit. Or 8-bit at the very least. This may present some app compatibility
issues - the current set are 4-bit just like in Windows 3.1, so adding colour
depth may break apps. Also, having large uncompressed BMPs will bloat cards.dll
up to 1Mb plus.

In summary because of the technical questions, and the significant work that
might be needed, and the marginal benefit, I deliberately avoided the dll.
Maybe one day someone else will come with a passion for shiny gradient shaded
alpha blended playing cards, but until then this bug is rather in limbo.