Transparent desktop icons

Started by twocows December 11th, 2009 7:42 PM
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twocows

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Anybody have a set of transparent desktop icons that actually look reasonably good? I went Googling and couldn't find anything I liked, and I'm starting to get annoyed with the giant opaque icons blocking my wonderful Cardcaptor Sakura wallpapers. :'(
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Anybody have a set of transparent desktop icons that actually look reasonably good? I went Googling and couldn't find anything I liked, and I'm starting to get annoyed with the giant opaque icons blocking my wonderful Cardcaptor Sakura wallpapers. :'(
Um... which OS? Because you can easily change the icon size in 7 and Vista (if you didn't already know) by right clicking on your taskbar, selecting Properties, clicking on the Start Menu tab, and clicking the Customize... button, and unchecking "Use Large Icons" (somewhere near the bottom of the menu). This easily shrinks the amount of desktop space covered by at least half in most cases, especially if you have 15+ icons. Personally, I find those large icons annoying.

Otherwise, if you already have shrunken down your icons, I don't know of any good transparent icons. The only thing I could suggest is reduce the number of icons on your desktop.
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twocows

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XP, Vista, Linux; take your pick, I'm doing this on two computers, both of which have multi-boot environments. And size isn't really the problem, I already know how to shrink icons. I just need a good set of replacement icons for the normal icons that show up on the desktop, like My Computer, My Documents, folder shortcuts, etc.
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XP, Vista, Linux; take your pick, I'm doing this on two computers, both of which have multi-boot environments. And size isn't really the problem, I already know how to shrink icons. I just need a good set of replacement icons for the normal icons that show up on the desktop, like My Computer, My Documents, folder shortcuts, etc.
Yeah... I don't know any, then. It's never interested me before because I've always had a larger screen (dimension-wise) and not had to worry about anything being covered.

EDIT: I've found some very irrelevant ones, though.

EDIT2: Try this. Some links won't work.
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If you have GIMP or any other image manipulation program that supports .ico files, you can just edit the .ico files so that they have transparency in them.
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twocows

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Yeah... I don't know any, then. It's never interested me before because I've always had a larger screen (dimension-wise) and not had to worry about anything being covered.

EDIT: I've found some very irrelevant ones, though.

EDIT2: Try this. Some links won't work.
That looks promising; thank you very much. :D

If you have GIMP or any other image manipulation program that supports .ico files, you can just edit the .ico files so that they have transparency in them.
I don't know enough about how transparency works in ico files to do that. The way I would go about doing it (poking a bunch of alpha channel holes in the icon) would make it look really bad, since the icons are already only 32x32ish.
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