New icons

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: New icons
started by: Deeek

Posted by Deeek on Aug. 27 2004,23:38

Just curious, why don't you guys use < Gentoo's Icons > instead of the ones we have now ? They seem to look nicer, no offense.

Posted by mikshaw on Aug. 27 2004,23:53

Maybe because some of them are 24k? That doesn't fit into the "damn small" part of Damn Small Linux.

They are nice looking icons, though.

Posted by Deeek on Aug. 28 2004,01:41

Are you talking about size or colors range ? Because for size, all of the standard icons, when replaced with gentoo icons, would be only 131KB, rather than the standard 32KB.

But, in the end it is not that important. ;)

Posted by mikshaw on Aug. 28 2004,01:48

I don't think 131k is bad, particularly when the icons are so nice.
But I don't use icons myself, so I guess my opinion isn't really important here

Posted by TyphoonMentat on Aug. 28 2004,19:56

Just giving you my opinion as the Feather Linux developer - the icons work really well. They fit with most styles, and you can convert them to other formats to make them smaller by 30Kb or so.

Posted by John on Aug. 29 2004,00:14

DSL will never have bubble icons as default. If someone wants to make an extension for them that would be great, but I can't have them on the iso. Seeing them in a small resolution (800x600) is enough to make my eyes bleed.

Posted by TyphoonMentat on Aug. 29 2004,07:43

Ah, true, they do tend to take up a large amount of screen estate...