Re: gnome-globe.png

[Mark Finlay <sisob eircom net>]

Yeah, I like this a lot better - much more gnomeish, what d'ye
think jimmac?

Mark


On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 15:10, Francis Whittle wrote:
> I have to say I like Jimmac's a lot better except that I agree with you 
> on the overuse of 3d effects.  I think that flattening the value and 
> saturation ranges on the globe a bit and emphasising perspective less 
> on the shadow would make it a bit better.
> I've cobbled together a mockup, it also has a slight green filter 
> (Closest to "green medium" in the 32 colour palette [ 
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/layout.html#Palette ], 
> grain merge ~20%) on the globe.  I think it might be little too green 
> (so much so as to be too far out from the HIG palette), and maybe I 
> skimped on the perspective a little too much (and didn't pull the 
> shadow "forwards" far enough) but other than that is an improvement 
> (and seems to fit well with other gnome icons)...
> 
> On 2003.06.13 22:58, Mark Finlay wrote:
> > Hey Everyone,
> > 
> > Hope Jimmac is reading this, because I was going to send it
> > directly to him, but then I changed my mind and decided I
> > should get the list involved.
> > 
> > Anyway. Jimmac recently added a new gnome-globe icon to
> > the gnome-icon-theme (attached as gnome-globe(copy).png),
> > but I'm not too fond of it :) It is the only icon on the
> > menu with loads of 3d/shadowing and so donesn't fit in too
> > well.
> > 
> > I tried substituting in the gnome-globe from Industrial,
> > which is flatter and has nicer coloring (attached as
> > gnome-gnome-blue).
> > It looks a whole lot better but is
> > still a good bit bigger than the other icons in the panel.
> > 
> > I had an idea, and spliced together the Industrial one with
> > the gnome-fs-web icon and came up with the attached
> > gnome-globe.png - what do people/Jimmac/Luca think?
> > 
> > --
> > Mark Finlay <sisob eircom net>
> > 
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Mark Finlay <sisob eircom net>