Icon questions... maximum size? animated gif support?

[Perez]

I'm working on some message style stuff, and wondering... what's the maximum size for icons? (Are icons guaranteed to be square?)

Also, I was trying to use an animated gif as my icon, with no luck; is that to be expected at this point, or is it a bug (or do I not know the right way to do it)?

[Wengero]

try draging the file itself into the image picker well

[zaudragon]

try draging the file itself into the image picker well

That will be/is in 0.8

[1985]

I'm working on some message style stuff, and wondering... what's the maximum size for icons? (Are icons guaranteed to be square?)

MSN icons size is 96*96 but you can show as big as you like

[Perez]

For animating: As of rc1, it's not animating for any of the various ways I can think of to pick the .gif: drop it into Adium's icon-preview in the prefs, drop it into the pick-icon dialogue, select the file it with "Chose icon...", or drag the image (not the file - from another window where it's animating away) into either of the two first places. I guess I'll try again in .8 final.

[Son of a Preacher Man]

Perez: to animate, it must also be of the correct dimensions. They're mentioned a couple of times on these forums I think. Oh, it must also be on a service that supports animations

[michael]

Perez: to animate, it must also be of the correct dimensions. They're mentioned a couple of times on these forums I think. Oh, it must also be on a service that supports animations

Yeah this sounds right, you need to resize your animated icon to (i think) 48px by 48px. Otherwise if you try and use an image outside these proportions it will automatically get resized and lose it's animation in the process.