Subject: Re: the AW document icon
From: Dom Lachowicz (dominicl@seas.upenn.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 02 2001 - 08:31:58 CST
Quoting Tomas Frydrych <tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net>:
>
> I have just caused a stir at the University because when installing
> AW for my personal use I forgot to tell it not to associate .doc files
> with AW. The folk whose word doc's suddenly changed their icon
> to the AW doc icon panicked, because the look of the icon made
> them think that their files have been infected by some virus (and I
> can see why), perhaps we might consider changing the document
> icon to something less 'threatening'; as much as I like the ant, I
> think I prefered the old doc icon with the fancy 'A'.
The "A" would be cool. Also, there is a PNG/TIFF/XPM icon that the Gnome folks
are using in abidistfiles/icons - if you rescaled that and converted it to ICO
(gimp 1.2.2 doesn't save as ICO and my copy of photoslop 5.5 doesn't either)
they should work just fine. IMO it's a really pretty icon.
Dom
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