Re: GNOME Icon Theme 2.13.5[.1] AKA the HOLY CRAP, ICONS! release

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Hi Rodney,

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 00:11 -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote:

> > Also, I'd need some of the fine GNOME icon artists to give it a spin
> > (I'm no icon artist, nor expert of Inkscape whatsoever, so the current
> > icon[1] still kinda sucks).
> 
> Hrmm. That icon looks like it's done a bit in the Tango style already.
> Did Andreas draw that?

No, I did it - with one eye to the Tango style, since the style
guidelines are very clear to follow even for a hack like me, when it
comes to drawing; and because those icons are really amazing (and since
I've been using them on my desktop for some time, now ;-)).

>  It's pretty nice icon, visually speaking. But,
> the metaphor is lacking.

I know, it's the same issue raised with the old icon: the "book" should
loosely remind of a dictionary - I've checked with some of the
dictionaries I have got on my bookshelves - but the point is that
there's no a uniform "dictionary-style" for those either.  So, in the
end, the dictionary/book metaphor should be dumped for good.

The fact that the dictionary has to do with writing makes the whole
thing a bit harder - especially when scaling down to the small icon
sizes.

>  You're welcome to
> join #tango on freenode or mail the tango-artists list, and discuss
> possible solutions to the dictionary metaphor problem, so that maybe we
> can have an amazingly nice icon for the dictionary.

I'll do.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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