Hi, sorry for the delayed response, I'm very busy with other work, and just quickly responding while waiting for a test to complete. Thank you for pointing me at the Jessie theme page, I had not previously seen it, and I do like it. I agree that an icon based on this might be nice. I am somewhat confused by your assertion that icons are usually square, because in fact they frequently come in many odd shapes. Just to pick a few from within gnome, there's brasero, archive manager, and evolution app icons, none of which are exactly square. In fact although there are several squarish, it's difficult to find an actual square icon in amongst my list of apps. More over, I did not pick a round icon out of inspiration of "rounded alternative" icon packs, but instead more because optical disks are round, and it is traditional for icons to do with optical disks to use a circle, e.g. the brasero icon, and also out of inspiration from Ubuntu's round icon (attached). The circle also possible helps add a small visual cue for "not so brilliant at computing" type users, experimenting with Debian, or whatever. Please don't misunderstand me as being offered here, I'm simply explaining my choice. My skills in this area are fairly new and amateurish (I'm a programmer, not a graphics artist), but I might be able to pull off creating an icon based on the Jessie theme, using the existing svg components provided with it. I will see if I can do so soon. (I am aware that a Jessie release is right around the corner). I can certainly provide it in the required sizes, thanks to svg, that is if I can successfully create it. The sizes I selected btw in the icons supplied so far I selected because they are the most useful for current versions of Windows. I did also look at the sizes used by Ubuntu, and there was one odd size that I didn't understand the point of so ignored. I did realise afterwards that there is no icon suitable for Linux, leaving gnome rendering a horrible fuzzy square. Also, I wasn't sure whether it was worth adding additional sizes to cover hi-dpi on Windows. I'll consider your list though, and of course once the svg icon has been created, any desired sizes can be easily created from that. On 17/12/2014 07:26, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Le mercredi, 10 décembre 2014, 05.56:22 jnqnfe a écrit : >> In relation to bug #772691 (autorun.inf not displaying a custom Debian >> icon from setup.exe aka win32-loader.exe when a Debian install >> disc/iso is loaded in a Windows environment, unlike Ubuntu) which I >> just reported, I created a small collection of possible replacement >> icons for win32-loader.exe (simple, clean, smart and in a range of >> colours!). I thought I would offer them up here in case you're >> interested. > Thanks for these, and the quite large choice palette. I'm not a great > fan of the "rounded" alternatives though; icons are usually square and > what we want to be seen is the Debian swirl, not a circle, IMHO. > > Iff we change the win32-loader .ico icon (that might then also be > displayed as a CD icon on Windows hosts), we should aim at using the > picked "Lines" desktop theme: > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Lines > > The current icon has 5 embedded icon sizes (16,24,32,48,256), but is not > generated at build-time; ideally, we'd have a 512 pixels-sized svg, > generate the correctly-sized png's using rsvg-convert and create the > final swirl.ico (name can be changed of course) out of these. > > Are you interested in creating a Lines-themed square svg ? I could > manage the build-time creation. > > Cheers, > OdyX
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