* Ralf Nolden <nolden@kde.org> [2003-04-04 18:00]:
> On Friday 04 April 2003 18:29, Stephen Frost wrote:
>> He asked what was superior/different between icoutils and png2ico. He
>> didn't say it shouldn't go in or that there was any problem with it. If
>> it doesn't do anything different one might wonder about the point of
>> including it. Obviously mutt and elm are quite different in a number of
>> ways, as are exim and sendmail, etc.
>>
>> Are you getting defensive so quickly because there is no difference?
>
> Well, I don't question the good intention of the question nor would I
> insist on packaging it
You did, otherwise you would have used a very strange wording for your
response to Colin.
> That's why I filed an ITP - I just didn't know there's another tool
> available already :-)
Again, your response to Colin was completely misleading, then. Make up
your mind before you fire.
> OTOH this utility is just limited to doing what I wanted to do -
> convert a couple of standard size icons into one single ico for a CD.
You haven't read the manual page for icotool, have you? It's clearly
written out in the examples:
#v+
Create an icon named `favicon.ico' with two images:
$ icotool -c -o favicon.ico mysite_32x32.png mysite_64x64.png
#v-
> How's icotool handling that ? Can it convert multiple iconsizes into one ico
> resource or is it limited to one single png file converted into ico format ?
Yes, it can. See the EXAMPLES section in the manual page.
So long!
Alfie
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