Re: useless^H^H^H^ful feature request: favicon.ico

[Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de>]

Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 10:51:04PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > I am getting ridicilously used to to the little icons my window managers
> > shows in its panel for different sites I am visiting [1]. I have just been
> > told that this can be achived with a file favicon.ico at the root of the
> > site, and I check it with wget http://slashdot.org/favicon.ico
> > 
> > Could some kind soul create one of those babies from the Debian swirl?
> 
> This was discussed before on some list, either -www or -devel... someone
> simply needs to provide us with a PNG image to put there, and we'll put it
> there. :)

Bullshit, some webmaster only has to decide make actually use of
it.

Quoting a mail from me from one month ago or similar:

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Erik Tews <erik.tews@gmx.net> explained to me what favicon.ico
is and where it is used.   Debian has none but it's requested
quite often:

grep favicon /var/log/apache/access.log|wc -l
   4542

In short, Erik also provided the swirl as favicon.ico.  I wonder
if and how we (I?) should add it to the website?  Add it to the
english directory with -kb and add a special rule to the makefile
so it gets copied with the install target?

Find the swirl at
   http://people.debian.org/~joey/stuff/favicon.ico

And an example at
   http://www.linuxtag.org/favicon.ico

eeyes can display them.
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So there is an image already.  There was some discussion I was to lame
to follow (it's still in my mailbox therefore), but I remember there
were some objections.

Regards,

	Joey

-- 
All language designers are arrogant.  Goes with the territory...
	-- Larry Wall