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GNUGoS60 is a port of the FSF's GNU Go game engine to Nokia's S60 smartphone platform running on SymbianOS.

It is Free Software.

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Application Icons in S60 v2.0




I created icons for the S60 v2.0 version now also. These are just bitmaps and masks for them. I ended up using GIMP to downscale the icons from the one on the gnugo website. MS Paint and MS Photo Editor seen to just do nearest neighbour or something similar algorithm when downscaling images. This results are pretty poor quality. GIMP at least supports some sort of interpolation which gives a reasonable quality (as much as can be expected in 44x44 bitmap).
Making a mask was a pain though. There didn't seem to be any automatic way to do it, so I ended up doing by hand using the icon as the starting point. I am presuming that there is some automated way to do it somewhere out there. Otherwise it would be a huge waste of people's time. The SVG system in S60 v3.0 is far superior.

Anyway, now it's done, at least I don't have to do again!

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