Re: New icons for nm-applet

[Karl Lattimer <karl qdh org uk>]

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 11:48 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 15:27 +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote:
> > > Sorry about that, lots 'o mail.  I suck.  Yours look better, thanks :)
> > > 
> > > One question though: the vpn connecting icons are intended to be
> > > composited on top of the existing connection icon, and the ones you drew
> > > are centered, thus they would obscure whatever connection icon was
> > > underneath.  Is that intended?  
> > 
> > Ok, one question, I don't have a VPN to connect to so I just drew up
> > icons to replace the existing ones, I didn't realise that a composite
> > would be made... Could you send me an SVG of the layers in the existing
> > composite so I can have a poke at it?
> 
> Hmm, how would I do that?  Basically, the VPN lock is always composited
> into the lower-righthand corner of the large icon.  Everything else gets
> centered.  The existing VPN progress icons are built (with the lock
> positioned in the lower-right corner) so that they can just be smashed
> on top of the current icon and it'll all be positioned correctly.
> 
> So match the size of the nm-vpn-connecting-* set to the same overall
> size as the applet icon area, but just offset the vpn lock itself so
> it's positioned in the lower-right corner.  The progress twirlie can
> probably stay where it is.
> 
> Existing connection with VPN active:
> http://bigw.org/~dan/Screenshot.png

Now I get what you mean... Let me ponder this, I'll get back to you as
soon as I can see a good solution.

BR,
 K