New icons draft: menu editor, package manager (Pirut)
Just made a quick icons for menu editor and package manager based on current Echo version. In case of 24x24, they will be retouched with Gimp. More icons will come. Luya ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: New icons draft: menu editor, package manager (Pirut)
Le Mer 4 avril 2007 08:45, Luya Tshimbalanga a écrit : Just made a quick icons for menu editor and package manager based on current Echo version. In case of 24x24, they will be retouched with Gimp. More icons will come. Some remarks (I know I'm a pest): 1. I don't like the menu editor icon at all. If you don't know it's a menu editor, you won't guess : the menu part is difficult to distinguish, and the pen is associated with writing text, not composing menus. I'd rework the menu bit and remove the pen. Probably taking something like the classic add line in a table icon as base. Right now at fist sight it looks like yet another office/text editor icon. Generally speaking the isometric perspective echo chose makes this kind of icon difficult to create, since it reduces the effective space and slants common symbols. It works with 3d objects but not with 2d objects and pictograms (Note: I'm typically using = 100 dpi screens, and they'll only get more common now Vista lifted the old 96dpi windows resolution clamping. That means I may see have somewhat smaller pixels than you, with smaller icons) 2. I'd remove the CD gray box on the second one (no idea if it's supposed to be a PC tower case or a CD+manual box). The main installation/update method is network nowadays, and almost no one gets his Linux software in cardboard boxes. Maybe a pile of greyed-out closed packages with one colorful open package in the foreground would work better. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: New icons draft: menu editor, package manager (Pirut)
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Mer 4 avril 2007 08:45, Luya Tshimbalanga a écrit : Just made a quick icons for menu editor and package manager based on current Echo version. In case of 24x24, they will be retouched with Gimp. More icons will come. Some remarks (I know I'm a pest): Better get a remarks so it will be possible to track many issues as possible and fix as we can =) 1. I don't like the menu editor icon at all. If you don't know it's a menu editor, you won't guess : the menu part is difficult to distinguish, and the pen is associated with writing text, not composing menus. I'd rework the menu bit and remove the pen. Probably taking something like the classic add line in a table icon as base. Right now at fist sight it looks like yet another office/text editor icon. It was an attempt to reproduce the current menu-editor icons available on FC6. I will rework it. Generally speaking the isometric perspective echo chose makes this kind of icon difficult to create, since it reduces the effective space and slants common symbols. It works with 3d objects but not with 2d objects and pictograms (Note: I'm typically using = 100 dpi screens, and they'll only get more common now Vista lifted the old 96dpi windows resolution clamping. That means I may see have somewhat smaller pixels than you, with smaller icons) Ah ah. you use Microsoft Vista reference. =-O I will take account about the dpi in the future. 2. I'd remove the CD gray box on the second one (no idea if it's supposed to be a PC tower case or a CD+manual box). The main installation/update method is network nowadays, and almost no one gets his Linux software in cardboard boxes. Maybe a pile of greyed-out closed packages with one colorful open package in the foreground would work better. I am considering using a Globe instead of CD. And yes, the grey box is a PC tower. Be in mind it is just a draft. Luya ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: New icons draft: menu editor, package manager (Pirut)
Le Mer 4 avril 2007 10:19, Luya Tshimbalanga a écrit : Ah ah. you use Microsoft Vista reference. =-O Nope :) I personnaly don't care about Vista at all. However the windows 96dpi limitation hack has been ported by X GNOME people to the Linux desktop a few years ago, and they're resisted fixing it so far. Arguing that as long as Windows only knew 96dpi higher DPI hardware would't appear in numbers on the market. Now MS fixed their bug there's no excuse left to refuse considering screens with higher pixel density (OLPC is one) -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: New icons draft: menu editor, package manager (Pirut)
Uno Engborg wrote: The problem is that the menu part looks too much like a document (and yes, the pen adds to that impression). A add row in table like icon could work. Another way could be to show some part of the menu bar, so that it became distinguishable from a document. Good idea. Here is an attempt. Luya ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
Re: New icons draft: menu editor, package manager (Pirut)
Le mercredi 04 avril 2007 à 12:14 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga a écrit : Uno Engborg wrote: The problem is that the menu part looks too much like a document (and yes, the pen adds to that impression). A add row in table like icon could work. Another way could be to show some part of the menu bar, so that it became distinguishable from a document. Good idea. Here is an attempt. Much better. Maybe you can remove the blue tinge from the background menu slab? Echo is more than a little heavy on blue already. I suspect when the theme is complete reviewers will ask to re-paint some icons to avoid a monochrome effect -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
