Re: Adding an icon in a menu

[Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to add an icon to a menu entry.
>
> What are the width and height of the icon?
>
> Are 32 by 32 pixels OK? Do I have to ship more sizes?
>
> I think the icon have to be .xpm
>
> Thanks,

Please refer to [0] for the latest menu policy (menu package should be
installed).

Note, that lintian warnings about icon having more than 24 colors
may be safely ignored (such a requirement was present in now outdated menu
policy version, still present at [1]). Check bug #199341 for details.

References:

[0] /usr/share/doc/menu/menu.txt.gz
[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/

Best regards,

Jurij Smakov                                        jurij@wooyd.org
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