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This is the icon that we'll launch Ghostty 1.0 with. It was designed by
Michael Flareup at PixelResort. It retains the style of the original
Ghostty icon by Alasdair Monk, but brings in the new Ghost character and
adds details that make it more Apple-like.
The new Ghost character is an important evolution from the original
since it separates us from looking too much like PacMan. The new Ghost
is more unique and recognizable to Ghostty (or, hopefully will be!).
The icon itself has more details: the aluminum around the edge has
texture for the large enough sizes, there are visible scanlines, the
glow of a screen emanates from the ghost.
The icon itself is stylistic more Apple-like than other platforms. I
think Apple icons tend to look very good in more environments than the
reverse and I'm a big fan of the Apple aesthetic so I wanted to bring
that to Ghostty for all platforms.
Adds an rc file for windows. An rc file is a source file given to the
toolchain that instructs it on what "resources" to embed inside the
executable. You can think of "resources" as files or data that get
embedded into the executable and can be accessed both by the application
at runtime or by the OS. The OS uses resources for things like getting
the icon of the executable or extracting the version of an exe for the
user. Note that exe resources can also be modified without having to
recompile/relink the binary.
Thanks to Squeek502 zig has its own "RC Compiler" so this should still be
buildable on all platforms.
In the RC file I've included some basic info and left in comments for
other info to be populated later. I've also included a manifest file
which starts out by telling windows that our exe will be DPI aware and
to use a slightly more modern look and feel for native controls.
