Re: [Audacity-devel] Transparent Audacity icons

[Simon L. <sim...@mn...>]

Hello Andreas

To get the transparency correct with *.xpm format - try setting a
transparent background before you apply the "shadow" to the headphones...

Best regards, Simon


Andreas schrieb:
> hi,
>
>   
>> The desktop icon installed under Linux is currently and XPM file, and
>> not a transparent one. This means it gets a rather nasty looking white
>> square background on the desktop.
>>     
>
> this nasty one is installed in kubuntu7.04 by default (audacity 1.2)
>
>   
>> XPM restricts the transparency we can
>> use, but I think all current Linux desktops will use PNG files for
>> icons, so we can use full 8-bit transparency there as well. We probably
>> want to have a 48x48 pixel and a 24x24 pixel one, and then install them
>> into /usr/(local/)share/pixmaps/ (I thing - I certainly have a lot in
>> there).
>>     
>
> I've done so on my machine (kde) and it looks much better with the transparent
> png-files, you may take them from there:
>
> http://mediensyndikat.de/austausch/
>
> andreas
>
>
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