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

[Chris <racerx@makeworld.com>]

On Wed, 26 May 2010 03:46:40 +0200
Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 


Guillem - 

Thanks for the heads-up! I'll take a look over the weekend at it.

-- 
Regards,

Chris