shared-mime-info's terminology
Calum Benson
Calum.Benson at Sun.COM
Wed Nov 19 18:41:45 EET 2003
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 16:10, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > Should perhaps be singular here.
> I don't know. It looks like ico files (don't nail me on that) can
> contain multiple icons, at least multiple sizes. So maybe we should call
> it "Microsoft Windows icon resource".
> Anybody familiar with this format?
Not intimately, but you're right, a .ico file can contain multiple
icons. However, since these are almost always intended to be the same
icon at different sizes/depths, the file still conceptually contains a
single icon, so singular sounds a bit better IMHO too.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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