
This is to announce the release of

                 Anthony's X Icon Library (version 1.5)
                ----------------------------------------

This is a large collection of monocrome bitmaps and color pixmaps for
general use by the X comunity. These are small, usally less than 100x100
pixels, images that can be used for

        Program icons for general use by window managers
        Buttons/widget/gadget images
        Document types for a desktop program (like xdtm)
        walls, landscapes, space ships, objects for games

This collection does NOT contain and `large' pictures, though smaller root
window tile patterns are present. Nor does it contain `junky' icon images
you often find in use by programs.

The collection consists of 20 to 30 tar files containing icons
sorted into catorgories of size, and usage. These files can be found 
in the mit X contribution directory :-

             ftp.x.org   :   /contrib/AIcons

and the many mirrors of this directory by sites around the world so
look for a closer site first.  If the directory contains the file

                   ``---VERSION-1.5---''

then you have found the latest release being announced.
You can also examine the real libary through the world wide web at

         http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/icons/


MAJOR RE-ORGANIZATION
   The library has undergone a major re-organization of the directories
storing the icons, though little has changed within the individual
sections. This change hopfully reflects the icon sections better

 AIcons/
  |
  |- READMEs       All the readme files present in the collection
  |
  |- icons         General descriptive icons for general use.
  |   |- std         Standard 64x54 (golden rectangle) icons (monocrome)
  |   |
  |   |- bw-32       Black & White icons that are all 32x32 in size.
  |   |- bw-48       Black & White icons that are all 48x48 in size.
  |   |- bw-64       Black & White icons that are all 64x64 in size.
  |   |- bw-misc     Black & White icons of miscellanous size.
  |   |- bw-bgnd     Large background tile patterns (IE: escher fish tile).
  |   |
  |   |- cl-32       Color icons which are 32x32 pixels in size.
  |   |- cl-48       Color icons which are 48x48 pixels in size.
  |   |- cl-64       Color icons which are 64x64 pixels in size.
  |   |- cl-misc     Color icons of miscellanous sizes.
  |   |- cl-bgnd     Color background tiles. (NOTE: these are in gif format)
  |   |
  |   |- gr-misc     Grey Scale icons of miscellanous size
  |   |
  |   |- button      Small symbols or pictures used for buttons and/or markers.
  |   |- cursor      Cursors and associated masks. IE: watch & gumby
  |   `- flags       Flags of the world (black & white and color)
  |
  |- appl          Application icons for use within specific applications.
  |   |- twm         Icons for specific use in twm (title bar buttons, etc)
  |   |- mail        Mail status indicator icons (some with masks)
  |   |- drawing     Icons for in drawing programs (brushes, operations....)
  |   |- www         Icons for use within World Wide Web hypertext docs.
  |   |- cards       A set of black & white playing cards (40x60).
  |   `- desktop     Icons for use within file managers and directory lists.
  |       |- appl      General Applications (see also the icon sections)
  |       |- dirs      Directoryes, Folders and Drawer icons
  |       |- docs      File and Document icons (text, image, ps, etc..)
  |       `- file      Small icon symbols for directory listings
  |
  |- prog          Icons for programing  other purposes.
  |   |- patterns    Small scale texture patterns (black & white)
  |   |- movies      Icons that form an animation sequence of some sort.
  |   |- bits        Bits and Pieces of images to create larger image with.
  |   |
  |   |- advent      16x16 bitmaps for simple panview adventures.
  |   |- space       Space ships flying in 16 compass directions
  |   |- missile     Missiles flying in 8 compass directions
  |   |- map         Various landscape and floor icons.
  |   |- walls       Icons to build walls, and fences with.
  |   |- buildings   Building icons
  |   |- items       Miscellanous items (swords, potions, gems)
  |   |- devices     Devices and switches (these could be move out of games)
  |   |- beasts      Beasts and monsters from crossfire
  |   `- effects     Pattern icons that was used for magic effects
  |
  |- large         Icons which are too large, but included anyway
  |
  `- ????           What else? Anyone with other ideas?


COLOR CHANGES
  
  The following changes were made to the `standard color table'
which almost all the color icons in the library follow. These are:-

      The original color ``dark green'', was replaced by a lighter
    color ``sea green''.  The original dark green proved to to too dark
    for most situations, and too distant for the next green color ``lime
    green''.  This change should (and has) allowed the better use of the
    green color scale.

      A new color ``purple'' added to provide better linkage between the
    red and the blue areas of the color table. I expect that while the
    icons already in the library will not be changed to use this color,
    I beleive new additions will make good use of it.

      The original color ``maroon'' was removed and the existing usage
    of this color swicthed to ``firebrick'' which it very closly
    resembles.

      The color "sandy brown" removed as it too closly matchs the color
    "orange" which is used to replace it in existing icons.

This makes a new total of 29 colors in standard table.

   Dark                 <<--- color shades --->>                Light
  .-----------------------------------------------------------------------.
  |    "black",     "dark slate grey",     "slate grey",            |     |
  |                         "grey",     "gainsboro",     "white"    |   6 |
  |               "purple",    "magenta",    "violet"               |   3 |
  |  "firebrick",  "red",  "tomato",  "orange",  "gold",  "yellow"  |   6 |
  |                "sienna",  "peru",  + -^                         |   2 |
  |               "tan",   "wheat",   "lemon chiffon"               |   3 |
  |       "sea green",  "lime green",  "green",  "pale green"       |   4 |
  |      "navy",  "blue",  "dodger blue",  "sky blue",  "cyan"      |   5 |
  `-----------------------------------------------------------------------'
                                                                Total: 29

OTHER CHANGES

1/ A couple of new sections has been added (see tree above)

      appl/www     icons for use with the World Wide Web hypertext documents
                (Arrows, homes, anchors, and other miscellanous symbols)

      appl/cards   A set of playing cards, moncrome, 40x60 pixels.

2/ Due to copyright requirments the large 128x128 color background
   patterns have been moved into a sub-directory of the ``cl-bgnd''
   section.

     Geoff Adams <gadams@avernus.com>   and
     Stephen Krauth <phred@avernus.com>
        Geoff has kindly allowed the inclusion of the Desktop Textures in the
      sub-section cl-bgnd/Textures. These are 128x128 color background images
      which while a bit large for this collection are included as they are
      extremely useful.
        NOTE: these images are copyright and can not be included into any
      package without first contacting Geoff before hand.  He has provided a
      copyright notice which is included in that directory.

   Not all the images available in the Desktop Textures are present only
   those which were donated by users at one point or another. I hope to
   insert the complete collection into the library at some point in the
   furture.

3/ I have sorted through the 3000 icons in the hobbes collection. These
   are mostly crumy (no offence) IBM-PC 32x32 icons. I have included the
   best icons in the collection into the library (which weren't already
   present).  NOTE: some of the folder icons in this collect have not
   been added to the collection at the time of release, but thay will
   appear at some point.

   Included in this is a small set of color country flags. These have been
   placed into the ``flags'' section while the rest has been added to the
   ``cl-32'' section of the library.

4/ Many changes have been made to the `twm' icons, to try to make them
   easier to use, with the twm window manager.

5/ Many contributions have been made to the collection :-

  a) A new set of xpm icons from Claude Lecommandeur <lecom@sic.epfl.ch>

  b) Some other icons of the same odd size of 64x38 (same as those from
     Claude Lecommandeur) contributed by Dan Reynolds <dan@chpc.utexas.edu>
     This required a little re-orginising to fix. I may have to create
     a cl-64x38 icons section if any more of this size are contributed.

  c) The large collections of icons from the hobbes tar files on ftp.x.org
     have been sorted into the library.  Over 3000 icons needed to be
     waded through to do this of which about 500 made it into collection.

     In particular the color 32x20 flags came from this collection as did
     the new section `prim_grey' consisting of 3d like icons mostly only
     the grey scale (of the standard color table) and small amounts of
     primary colors for highlights.

  d) Steve Kinzler <kinzler@cs.indiana.edu>
     The black & white flags, olympics and weather sections, and many
     of the bw-48 icons, are from his "faces" bitmap collections, where
     separate credit is listed for their contribution.  Steve created
     most of the flags, and the Olympic sports icons from the `84 Los
     Angeles Summer Olympics event logos.

     The faces collections Steve coordinates are too large and dynamic
     to be included completely into this library. You can always
     download the most recent of these collections from
                        ftp://cs.indiana.edu/pub/faces
     They include hundreds of logos for Internet domains and Usenet
     newsgroups and thousands of faces of users.

  e) A few icons from WScrawl program sources from Brian Wilson
     <brianw@apple.com>

