Icons are messed up in Win 2000


Program icon, and especially - taskbar icon both seems to be designed for Windows XP only (hi colors + transparency). That makes them look sinfully ugly in Windows 2000, which only supports 16-color icons for taskbar and no transparency for any icons.

I understand that changing icons is less important than fixing other bugs and adding new features. :) So, trying to help, I spent some time and fixed the icons:

  • Here is icon set modified to look nice in every other Win, besides XP: icons.zip
  • Here is a sample: sample.png

zip contains:

  1. feedreader_main.ico - main program file icons. All original icons, plus, correct downsampled 16x16-256, 32x32-256 and 16x16-16 icons, fixed by hand pixel-by-pixel, so they look really nice now.
  2. feedreader_taskbar_w2k.ico, feedreader_taskbar_highlight.ico - default/"new items" versions of icon to be used for taskbar area.

Let me know if you need any further help with those icons.