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Azar Wolf · Post by **Azar Wolf** » December 29th, 2008, 4:01 am

I made some icons for the following files:
Wesnoth.exe
Editor.exe
Unins000.exe (this file has an icon, but it's broken: the icon only shows up properly when viewed in thumbnail mode)

I took the liberty of using a black background since I found it shows up much better than on a white background, like the original unins000.exe's icon was supposed to look like.

Wesnoth_exe_icons.zip: Unins000.exe - unins000.ico
wesnoth.exe - wesnoth.ico
editor.exe - editor.ico; (19.52 KiB) Downloaded 306 times

Post by **Sangel** » December 29th, 2008, 10:48 am

Depending on what system you're running, this could be an improvement on the current Wesnoth icon; running Mac OS X, I think I prefer the transparent background of the current icon.

You'll probably get more feedback if you attach your icons in .jpg format directly to your post, in addition to your present .zip of the icons.

Thumper · Post by **Thumper** » December 29th, 2008, 12:35 pm

The black background isn't an improvement and so far as I can see you've only provided 32x32 icons - Windows needs 16x16 as well, Vista and Mac OS X also need larger resolutions. The writing is also hardly legible, and as it's in English it isn't as accessible to users in other languages.

- Chris

Azar Wolf · Post by **Azar Wolf** » December 29th, 2008, 4:19 pm

Thumper wrote:The black background isn't an improvement and so far as I can see you've only provided 32x32 icons - Windows needs 16x16 as well, Vista and Mac OS X also need larger resolutions. The writing is also hardly legible, and as it's in English it isn't as accessible to users in other languages.

- Chris

What? These were 64x64 icons... The idea was that they could be sized down...

I can also provide a version with transparent backgrounds too.

(I'm running XP btw)

Eragon · Post by **Eragon** » December 29th, 2008, 4:40 pm

No offense but I don't like those. I can make icons for XP but I'm terrible at it. I like the regular one more. The BFW isn't really handy. It might confuse peaple who are new to wesnoth. And don't know what BFW stands for. How about a unit from wesnoth as the icon. Well I tried it and the units are too big! Darn it!

Azar Wolf · Post by **Azar Wolf** » December 29th, 2008, 4:47 pm

Eragon wrote:No offense but I don't like those. I can make icons for XP but I'm terrible at it. I like the regular one more. The BFW isn't really handy. It might confuse people who are new to wesnoth. And don't know what BFW stands for. How about a unit from wesnoth as the icon. Well I tried it and the units are too big! Darn it!

What regular one? The only regular one I can find was this:

: The current icon from the unins000.exe; brokenwesnoth.png (4.92 KiB) Viewed 4322 times

or XP/vista's default "exe" icon... The broken icon is rather hideous and I'd say that BFW is less confusing than just the default .exe file icon.

FYI- I'll get around to fixing up the W later.

And as png attachments, here's the transparent versions:

: Editor.exe (transparent background); editor_bigtransparent.png (8.68 KiB) Viewed 4321 times

: wesnoth.exe (transparent background); wesnothtransparent.png (9.32 KiB) Viewed 4319 times

Eragon · Post by **Eragon** » December 29th, 2008, 5:03 pm

My icon shows up!

Azar Wolf · Post by **Azar Wolf** » December 29th, 2008, 5:16 pm

Eragon wrote:My icon shows up!

What do you mean? I don't understand that in the context of this discussion...

DEATH_is_undead · December 29th, 2008, 11:18 pm

Personally, i like those better then the originals. Good job!

Azar Wolf · Post by **Azar Wolf** » December 30th, 2008, 12:30 am

What are these originals people are talking about?
this?

That's what shows up for me anyways. (I'm running XP and vista. The vista uses it's default program icon like XP does)

I'm glad you like it though...

I still need to fix the right of the "W" however.

Max · Post by **Max** » December 30th, 2008, 12:50 am

someone recently provided an icon here:
https://gna.org/bugs/?12716

it got all the common resolutions up to 64x64

Azar Wolf · Post by **Azar Wolf** » December 30th, 2008, 1:09 am

I see. There WAS a real icon after all. I only made these since I thought they didn't exist

DEATH_is_undead · Post by **DEATH_is_undead** » December 30th, 2008, 3:21 am

Azar Wolf wrote:I see. There WAS a real icon after all. I only made these since I thought they didn't exist

It doesn't work for me either. But it did a while back... This is what i was referring to. Also, yours is better then those anyway.

Azar Wolf · Post by **Azar Wolf** » December 30th, 2008, 3:27 am

Well, if the dev's would like them, they can have them.
If they'd like, I can fix up the "w" as well as provide translations (via some online translator) for "editor" if it really is necessary.

DEATH_is_undead · Post by **DEATH_is_undead** » December 30th, 2008, 3:57 am

Azar Wolf wrote:
Well, if the dev's would like them, they can have them.
If they'd like, I can fix up the "w" as well as provide translations (via some online translator) for "editor" if it really is necessary.

You mean 'B'? 'W' would be 'Wesnoth'...

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