On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 11:34 +0100, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
Joel Holdsworth joel@airwebreathe.org.uk writes:
My final question is about what to do with my source artwork. The artwork has been collected from a variety of sources. Some is SVGs, some gimp .xcf.bz2s, and some plain PNGs. I guess these shouldn't go into the wine source repo, but does anyone have any bright ideas where these files *should* go? They'll need to be published in case the icons ever need to be changed in any way.
Ideally they would all be SVG, we already have the infrastructure for that, and for regenerating the icons from it. Though I don't know how that would work for low bit depths, it probably needs some makefile work.
Yes - I agree. However, I don't think it can work. It's really only the 32-bpp and 32x32 and 48x48 that can be generated from vector. The rest have all had at least some pixel work done. Some are completely done in raster. This is a reality of making icons; like hinting a font there's a lot of manual intervention at small sizes and low depths. That's one of the reasons it's taken so long to make the set.
To make matters worse, a few of the icons were *acquired* as pngs or xcf.bz2s, which means I have no svg to begin with. It's all a very mixed bag.
Complicating things further, I've found two bugs in icotool, which means that I have to run the compiled icons through my own icon tweaker program that fixes up the problems with the file (I've contacted the original author about the problem).
For this reason I think the best thing would be for me to tidy up my project directory and upload it as a tarball somewhere. There's enough source material there so that someone could come and adjust the icons - even it's not as elegant as having it tied into the build process.
Another question: When the time comes, what would be the best way to submit the icons? I have 36 patches each of which is going to be many kilobytes. Will the wine-patches mailing list take such large attachments? Would it be easier to send you a git pull request from my gitorious repo?