Re: [platform-swt-dev] Resolved: To properly support MacOSX, SWT needs t

[Randy Hudson <hudsonr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Icons in Eclipse are supplied by
the ui team. (platform-ui-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx) and other component owners,
not the SWT team. (I'm sure they are watching though :-)

-randy

Andre John Mas <ajmas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: platform-swt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 02/04/2003 10:16 AM Please respond to platform-swt-dev

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PNG would certainly be the way to go, as this is an
open format with
no royalty requirements and it does support alpha channels, as pointed
out by Randy. In fact I would like to see PNG being used as the icon 
defacto format for SWT. I believe it is best to avoid too many diffent
icon formats, otherwise this likely to create bugs because the icon is
not updated for such and such platform.

Andre-John

Randy Hudson wrote:
> 
> I think the Apple expects Icons to be antialiased along the edges.
 So, 
> the transparency mask should be 8-bit depth, not 1-bit like in GIF
files.
> I would assume that TIFF supports this if it is the MacOS standard.
> 
> As a workaround, anyone wanting to create Icons with 8-bit alpha values
> can currently use the PNG format, which *is* supported by SWT.
> 
> 
> 
> *Andre Weinand <weinand@xxxxxxx>*
> Sent by: platform-swt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 01/31/2003 10:15 AM
> Please respond to platform-swt-dev
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[platform-swt-dev] Resolved: To properly 
> support MacOSX, SWT needs to support TIFF
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> 
> 
> 
> Bob,
> 
>  >I don't know what others' experience has been but my GIF
icons look like
>  >crap on MacOSX.
> 
> Do you mean, that our icons were designed for Windows and
> that they not adequately match the unique Mac experience :-)
> or do you experience a technical problem that icons don't look good
on 
> MacOS X?
> 
> (Please post a screendump with some crappy icons!)
> 
>  >I freely admit they don't look like Great Art on Windows,
>  >but it does seem to me that to properly support MacOSX,
SWT should support
>  >the native icon format there, which is as much an industry
standard as the
>  >formats currently supported.
> 
> What is the native icon format on MacOS X?
> Are you suggesting to use TIFF icons in order to support 24-bit color?
> 
> I think as long as we continue to use tiny 16x16 icons, the gif format
> supports
> 24-bit color too, because every of the 256 pixel in the icon can have
> a different 24-bit RGB color;
> and if you need more colors for larger icons we already support jpeg).
> 
> And we'll get a real 'native' MacOS X application icon soon!
> (http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=23914)
> 
> --andre
> 

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