Re: Emacs icons

[Lennart Borgman]

Frank Schmitt wrote:

> "Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> writes:
>  
>
> This is highly dependent on the window- or file manager used and
> normally configurable to a certain degree by a user. Commonly used sizes
> are:
>
> 16x16  20x20/  24x24  32x32  36x36  48x48  64x64  96x96
>
> I'm really wondering that people are creating the icons as bitmap
> images. The major desktop environments under Gnu Linux (Gnome, KDE,
> XFCE) are currently switching to vector based images (svg) and as far as
> I know the next version of MS Windows will do so to. (Using a mangled
> version of the open format svg which will differ just so much to be
> incompatible)
>  
Thanks for the information. I did not know that SVG was going to be used 
everywhere. Then it looks like I good idea to make both bitmap and SVG 
versions. Do you have any idea of how to handle this?

I have seen there is an SVG plugin for Gimp. However I do not know about 
the internal format for Gimp, if that is a bitmap format and/or a vector 
format. If Gimp can make both SVG files, png and w32 ico format files 
from the same picture then we can solve this easily I guess. But that 
depends on how well Gimp can handle this. There may of course also be 
other options. Do you know anything about this?