Re: Bug#582831: ITP: png2ico -- png2ico converts PNG files to Windows icon resource files.

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 18:38:26 -0500, Chris Silva wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Chris Silva <racerx@makeworld.com>
> 
> 
> * Package name    : png2ico
>   Version         : 12.08.02-1
>   Upstream Author : Matthias S. Benkmann <matthias@winterdrache.de>
> * URL             : http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/
> * License         : GPL-2
>   Programming Lang: G++
>   Description     : png2ico converts PNG files to Windows icon resource files.
> 
> png2ico takes the input files and stores them in the out
> put file as a Windows icon resource. Usually the input
> files would all represent the same image in different
> resolutions (common resolutions are 16x16, 32x32 and 64x64).
> A program reading the icon resource will pick the image
> closest to its desired resolution and will then scale it
> if necessary.

Are you aware of icoutils, which is already in the archive? Is there
anything png2ico can do which icoutils cannot? And in that case
couldn't that be added to icoutils instead, to avoid adding more of
the same to the archive?

regards,
guillem