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Icon File
A generic, often ambiguous extension for icon resources.
The `.icon` file extension is a generic identifier for icon images. Unlike the strictly defined `.ico` (Windows Icon), `.icon` is often used in Unix/Linux environments or by tools like ImageMagick as a catch-all alias for various icon formats (including Sun Icon, XBM, or simply renamed ICO files). It is not a standardized format itself but a convention for naming icon resources.
The internal structure of an `.icon` file depends entirely on what created it. It might be a standard Microsoft ICO container with multiple sizes and color depths. It might be a persistent X11 bitmap (XPM). Or it might be a Sun Raster file used for icons on Solaris systems. Because of this ambiguity, it requires a robust viewer that detects format by 'magic bytes' rather than extension.
In the early days of GUI desktops (SunOS, IRIX, early X11), there wasn't a single unified icon standard like Windows .ico. The `.icon` extension served as a descriptive label for files intended to be used as desktop icons, regardless of their underlying binary format.
X BitMap
Images written as C source code.
XBM (X BitMap) is a unique image format that is actually a valid snippet of C source code. It defines an array of bytes representing a monochrome bitmap. Because it is code, it can be compiled directly into an application binary, which made it the standard for X11 icons and cursors.
An XBM file contains `#define` statements for width and height, and a static array of unsigned chars: `static unsigned char image_bits[] = { 0x00, 0xFF, ... };`. It supports only 1-bit color (black and white). Transparency works by defining a mask.
The original format for X Window System bitmaps (X10/X11). Used extensively in the 90s for the early World Wide Web (Mosaic browser) before GIF/JPEG took over.
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