OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Graphics and Window Design

Dynamic Icons

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Sergey Posokhov:

--- Quote from: David Graser on January 06, 2018, 01:49:36 am ---I think it is looking good.

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"Proof of Concepts" are really good and modern. They are much better than aggressive "eye candies" in eCS 2.x.

David Graser:
For those few brave souls that decided to download and give it a try, I attaching an updated pic with more portal folders made.  One thing I realized is that there needs to be some general folders; for folders that have no personalized made portal folder, a general utilities portal, and general information portals.  In the new pic, you will see the new generalized portal for those folders that don't have their own portal icons.

There are advantages to this concept.  Usually with every new release of each version of OS/2, the folder icons are changed.  This is a tremendous amount of work.   With the template, portals can be easily updated.  It is also so much faster because one is not trying to fit another large icon in with the folder icon.  I find  lot of the new folder icons just blend too much together.

Anyway, the dynamic icon feature is great.  Thank to all the planners and developers that made this happen!  I am excited about my new desktop as it develops.

I see no loss of performance on my ArcaOS system using these PNGs.

David


Anyway, I am happy with my desktop.  I will continue to make more portals and then I may start on updating some of the icons again. 


Dave Yeo:
Looks good.
About performance, I think the problem is actually losing address space in the lower arena causing programs to fail quicker. This could be tested with Theseus by measuring memory with and without the dynamic icons.

David Graser:
I have  updated, renamed, and attached my Portal Folders. I would discard the previous zip.  This one contains way more and the icons are named in a more logical order.

I have used PNGs primarily for the folders, although I do have a few PNG icons.  If someone needs a portal folder made for one of their programs, let me know and I will try to make one.

I am now looking at the desktop backgrounds.  I do believe most should be removed and put in the garbage.  I have a few I will upload in a few days for people to try and use if they so chose.  Anything is better than most of what is in the OS2\Bitmap directory.

File is too large.  Will try again later today after I have had some sleep.

David

David Graser:
Broke Portal_Folder icons into two zip files.

The first

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