Re: proposal for limiting menu icons color and size

[Joey Hess <joey@kite.ml.org>]

Adrian Bridgett:
> Chris Walker <cjw1006@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>  > Personally, I think that a 16x16 looks right on my fvwm2 menu as it is
>  > roughly the same size as the text. 
> 
> Agreed. IIRC there were some really nice ones which came with Fvwm95.

I can never tell what picture is on a 16x16. Maybe I need a lower
resolution, or better glasses :-)

> This might be a bit difficult to implement. Maybe we should have seperate
> directories - one for 16x16 and one for 32x32.
...
> I'm biased as I am using 16bit colour, but I think this might be a bit
> harsh on some pixmaps. In a few years time, most people will probably be
> using TrueColor displays anyway. How about splitting the pixmaps into two
> directories - full colour and reduced colour.

So we have a total of 4 icon files for every item on the menus? Isn't this 
getting excessive? 

Granted, it would look better in 16bpp. But you can really reduce icons to
the colormap without much loss in quality. I've been reducing all the icons
in my menus to the colormap, and I haven't noticed a difference with most of
them (a few had to be hand-edited to look good).

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