[Unison-hackers] Logotype design

[Alan Schmitt]

On 15 oct. 07, at 21:41, Benjamin Pierce wrote:

> However, before going too much further with the design, we need to
> make sure we're going to be able to get these whizzy new icons
> integrated into the user interfaces in the Unison sources.  I was not
> responsible for putting in the current icons and I don't know how it
> is done -- anybody willing to help?

I just stumbled on the way to do it reading other things, and it  
seems fairly simple.

The icon is stored in the application bundle, under Contents/ 
Resources/Unison.icns

To create an icon, one can use the developer application Icon  
Composer, in /Developer/Applications/Utilities. Under Tiger, it seems  
that one need 4 versions of the icon: 16x16, 32x32, 48x48, and  
128x128 in RGBA. One also needs the "hit mask" (a 1 bit of mask of  
the same size than the icon) but it can be computed from the icon  
itself.

I just tried creating an icon and replacing the one from Unison, and  
it works (there is some caching involved so it's not visible  
immediately though, copying the application made it visible).

Vitezslav, if you have these 4 versions of the icon in RGBA, I could  
try incorporating it in the 2.28 current version, just to see how it  
looks.

Thanks,

Alan


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