Re: status on improving the icon theme -- new and changed icons

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Hi Luca:

Could you email me the screenshot?  The attachment seems not to have
come through :-)

thanks

Bill

On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 09:49, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Il ven, 2003-06-13 alle 13:08, Bill Haneman ha scritto:
> > Hi Folks:
> > 
> > I'd like to request that any proposed changes to our icon themes,
> > particularly those that add new icons or substantially change the
> > "metaphor" of an existing icon (for instance house=="home)
> 
> Take a look to attached screenshot, but it's just a preview. IMHO there
> are not so much changes by now in applications://, just we are preparing
> some 32x32 icons and crossing fingers hoping to switch application menu
> to this size and using different icons for Accessories, Other and Office
> categories.
> 
> As you can see in shot there is a little trouble with Other entry, I
> like to use a gnome-other-apps.png icon, something like a box with some
> stuff inside.
> 
> Well, there is another trouble too, all icons use a different
> prospective, but we are in hard development :-)
> 
> 
> Oh, by now the big change is use something like gtk_stok_exit in logout
> entry, probably this should be fixed in a11y themes, but we have already
> the B&W icon.
> 
> 
> >  PLEASE
> > include high-contrast versions of the modified icons for use in our high
> > contrast themes.
> > 
> 
> But, please, don't emblems too!!! It'a a mess!!!
> 
> 
> > Low-contrast and 'large print' versions can be created programmatically
> > from the standard icon.  Likewise we use two versions of the
> > HighContrast icons which are just inversions of one another, i.e. black
> > and white reversed, so a single piece of source artwork could be used.
> > 
> > HighContrast icon conventions:
> > 
> > * one size, 48x48 (we currently resample down for smaller sizes)
> > * no thin lines, i.e. no features less than 3 pixels
> > * contrasting border (3 pixels?) so that the 
> > icon is clearly visible against both light and dark (including
> > black/white) backgrounds.
> > 
> > thanks very much,
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
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> -- 
> Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>
>