Frankly, I don't know. It's some third-party component I don't have and I don't use, and 3.1.4 does not require to operate. It does support more colorful icons out of the box.
Wikipedia
establishes that:
NewIcons are relatively large in file size compared to conventional Amiga icons or MagicWB icons. NewIcons are stored in 8-bit data even when only few colours were used. Image data is encoded in ASCII to application metadata [...]
[...]
The GlowIcons format, based on NewIcons file format, is the native icon format used in AmigaOS 3.5, 3.9 and 4.0 by Matt Chaput. The major difference to NewIcons is how image data is stored. NewIcons uses inefficient ASCII encoding embedded to the application Tool Type metadata. In GlowIcons system developers extended internal icon definition without need to resort to storing information as Tool Types.
Am I right assuming Workbench 3.1.4 can identify, parse and use the RGB color definition/image data encoded as ASCII in the Tool Types meta data (and that, accordingly, Workbench 3.1.4 can use NewIcons icon-files
natively)? Does 3.1.4 natively support the GlowIcons extensions, too? Which one of the formats do those extra icons shipped with Release 3.1.4 use?
