Alexander Wagner wrote:
> Joost 't Hart wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
>> $ Error in startup script: image format "png" is not supported
>> while executing
>> "image create photo FICSrelayedgames -format png -data {
>
> Till now we only used GIF for the icons troughout Scid mainly to avoid
> this problem and keep deps low.
>
> Should this be changed?
Hm, I think it is not an either/or, but if deps do change along the
road, I think this somehow should be explicitly mentioned/documented.
In this case chasing and satisfying it was not too difficult, but not
doing anything is just asking for postings in this list :-) .
>
> Of course, droping the limitation of 256 colours in PNG gives nicer
> controls, usually. However, I discovered that Gnome industrial/Gnome
> stock looks pretty good 256 colours as well. (Thats why I used them
> for CC controls.)
>
Yeah, I actually was not aware that an alternate (supposedly better) png
piece set was being used with libtk-img installed, if Pascal had not
mentioned it explicitly. Only then I recognised some minor imperfections
along the edges of some pieces at some board sizes (quite irregular, I
must say) that I had not noticed with the gifs before :-)
> Or should we have two sets?
Hm, no not perse, I think; as long as is clear what is required to get
stuff going.
>
> What set should be/was used?
>
> I gather those icons were chosen from some existing set. Of course,
> personal preferences enter here. I acutally do not care to much but
> would suggest not to use icons with to low a contrast. E.g. I've some
> problems with the Crystal set quite popular in the KDE world. (For me
> it's contrast is to low.)
I tried the FICS interface for the first time today (managed to actually
play a guest game, after I had discovered I had to disable timeseal).
Looks pretty good; maybe the icons look a bit lonely in their panel if
you make the freechess dialog wider...
>
> In consequence, wouldn't it then probably be wise to redo all the
> other icons as well? (Not in bunch but as time goes by...) Probably,
> this will also result in a set of stock icons to come to a more common
> look and feel in the various parts?
Yep, why not?
>
> Wouldn't it then also be wise to move those photo-lines, currently
> cluttered around the source, to a single file while redoing them? Is
> this possible? Wouldn't this probably also facilitate to keep two sets
> one in GIF one in PNG?
>
> Additionally, should we also come to an agreement about the sizes of
> the individual controls to get a similar look and feel troughout the
> app? (I just wonder as till now the tendency was to make all controls
> as small as possible while in FICS currently the Icons are quite large.)
> Also for consistency of the GUI, where should we use textual buttons
> and where should we use icons only?
>
Hm, this is truely a matter of taste. If prefer to stay away from those
discussions. Maybe we should find a UI designer and put the thing in
his/her hands.
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