On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 03:57:14PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > I am getting ridicilously used to to the little icons my window managers > > > shows in its panel for different sites I am visiting [1]. I have just been > > > told that this can be achived with a file favicon.ico at the root of the > > > site, and I check it with wget http://slashdot.org/favicon.ico > > > > > > Could some kind soul create one of those babies from the Debian swirl? > > > > This was discussed before on some list, either -www or -devel... someone > > simply needs to provide us with a PNG image to put there, and we'll put it > > there. :) > > Bullshit, some webmaster only has to decide make actually use of > it. > > Quoting a mail from me from one month ago or similar: > > In short, Erik also provided the swirl as favicon.ico. I wonder > if and how we (I?) should add it to the website? Add it to the > english directory with -kb and add a special rule to the makefile > so it gets copied with the install target? > > Find the swirl at > http://people.debian.org/~joey/stuff/favicon.ico > > So there is an image already. There was some discussion I was to lame > to follow (it's still in my mailbox therefore), but I remember there > were some objections.
Before I wrote that mail to Edd, I checked that there was a discussion and all of the objections were turned down. What I forgot to check was the first message in the thread, which contained this URL. Feel free to commit the image (presuming it is a PNG and not the Microsoft ICO format) into webwml/english. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
