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RE: [PATCH] Setup icon

> On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 08:36, Max Bowsher wrote:
> > Robert Collins wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 18:43, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > >> 2003-03-30  Gary R. Van Sickle  <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
> > >>
> > >> * cygwin.ico:  Added two new resolutions, 64x64 and 72x72.
> > >> Sorry, no Cyppy.  Yet. ;-)
> > >
> > > Max, this is approved - if you could check it in...
> >
> > Umm. This cygwin.ico is 39 times larger than the current one. The size
> > increase could be much reduced by not storing the new icon sizes in
> > 16-million-colour format, when they contain only 2 colours.
>
>
> Very good point.
> Gary, uncontentious as it was, this should be changed (assuming it's
> easy to do so) - we don't want to increase setup.exe's binary size
> pointlessly.
>
> If it is hard to change, then I'd be interested to know the absolute
> size difference the binary has - after upxing.

<head in hands, laughing to keep from crying> ;-)

No, it's easy to change.  I just did it.  It goes from 30K to 7K.  I made it
24-bit so we'd be ready for "future enhancements" (i.e. a fancier-looking icon,
maybe with that "3-D" look the kids are all into these days), but of course who
knows when that lightning might strike.  The 16-color version attached, same
resolutions, same Changelog.

I don't have UPX (downloading it an several tens of meg of other stuff over "Ol'
Pokey" now), but since it is currently only 3-color (transparent), it should
compress extremely well I'd think.  If they both compress to pretty similar
sizes, I'd say use the 24-bit one so there's one less hurdle for somebody to
cross if they want to make a more colorful Cygwin Staple ;-).

--
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer.  Patriot.

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