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Hi Alexandre (+ Others),
I notice you've been working on hi-res icons. I just have a couple of comments to chip in.
So 2 years ago when I was doing the wine icon refresh, I decided not to try and tackle the problem of hi-res icons. Just getting the normal sized icons merged had proved to be a gargantuan task that took me over a year to complete - I didn't have the stomach to embark on another round of artwork. We also didn't support PNG icons in those days.
As you can see in these hi-res icon patches, scaling icons is never as simple as people think.
http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/blob/HEAD:/programs/iexplore/iexplore....
As you can see here, scaling the iexplore icons really shows the limits of this artwork. The line caps are wrong in several places. The worst being in the highlight of the yellow swoosh at the bottom - you see the highlight doesn't line up with the border. A lot of things don't quite line up correctly.
Moreover what were sharp single pixel lines in the 48x48 image have become fat strokes, which look rather play-schoolish to my eye.
The solution is to have dedicated artwork specifically for these large sizes. This has been done in the Mango icon project:
http://jimmac.musichall.cz/i.php?i=MIME2 http://jimmac.musichall.cz/i.php?i=git3 http://jimmac.musichall.cz/i.php?i=Tango-NG
This is the work of Jakub Steiner and Lapo Calamandrei. They did a workshop on how to do this artwork here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T7833s2MJI
Notice the fine detailing and beautiful shading. In the network filter they even used a paper texture for the card of the folder! These guys have done a fantastic job.
So I wanted to sound out how much desire there is for this for Wine.
I'm probably not going to be able to contribute this myself, due to time constraints. I wondered if there were any other developers cum artists interested in having a go.
2 years ago I asked Jakub if he would be interested in doing this, but he said he was quite busy. It might be worth reaching out to him or Lapo again, to see if they'd like to contribute.
Also, I don't know how much this work is being driven by CodeWeavers Mac product, but another approach would be to for CodeWeavers to solicit contract work or a bounty for this. Jakub or Lapo might be more able to make time on those terms - but of course I don't know if that's a deal they or CodeWeavers would be interested in making.
Another source of volunteers might be the tango-artists ML, but I don't know how many there are there.
Finally, I've rebased my patch for the joy.cpl icon. It doesn't have a 256px icon though. Is this wanted?
Best Regards Joel Holdsworth
Joel Holdsworth joel@airwebreathe.org.uk writes:
As you can see here, scaling the iexplore icons really shows the limits of this artwork. The line caps are wrong in several places. The worst being in the highlight of the yellow swoosh at the bottom - you see the highlight doesn't line up with the border. A lot of things don't quite line up correctly.
It still looks better than the scaled up 48x48 version we'd get otherwise ;-) But yes, if someone wants to work on improving this it would certainly be welcome.
Also, I don't know how much this work is being driven by CodeWeavers Mac product, but another approach would be to for CodeWeavers to solicit contract work or a bounty for this. Jakub or Lapo might be more able to make time on those terms - but of course I don't know if that's a deal they or CodeWeavers would be interested in making.
It's just something I was playing with, it's not a priority for CodeWeavers at all.
Finally, I've rebased my patch for the joy.cpl icon. It doesn't have a 256px icon though. Is this wanted?
Ultimately yes, though at the moment the Mac driver doesn't show the large icon for control panel apps.