256x256 px icons

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Sun Aug 14 11:16:00 GMT 2011


On Aug 14 09:18, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 27 July 2011 18:30, Warren Young wrote:
> > - Do we need more sizes?  I've seen reference to odd sizes like 64x64 and
> > 96x96, but surely we can trust Vista+ to scale the 256x256 to these sizes
> > without needing hand-tweaked versions?
> 
> Picking up on an old point here. As Warren suggests, the 64x64 doesn't
> actually seem to be used if 256x256 is present. For example, when
> setting the desktop icon size to large, a downscaled 256x256 is used.
> Shall we drop the 64x64s for a bit of a size saving (particularly as
> they're in BMP rather than PNG format)?

You're saving 12K or so.  Given that we already have the icons, is it
worth it to delete them for just a few K?


Corinna

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