Re: New icons for nm-applet

[Karl Lattimer <karl qdh org uk>]

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 16:07 +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote:
> > > > 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.
> > 
> > Great, hope it's soon :)  I'd think just moving the padlock down and to
> > the right in the existing images would be just fine.
> 
> Probably, but I'd rather do some sketches of some other ideas, I mean
> it's only one image which is used as an overlay, so that one could be
> fixed easily, but I'm thinking now in terms of the progress meter for
> vpn.
> 
> Maybe if we are moving the padlock down, then I could use icons which
> are similar to the standard connecting animation but instead of a dot a
> keyhole or something instead.
> 
> I'm mulling it, there's some space for flexibility. 
> 
> Hopefully i can knock up some updated icons today, and while i'm at it
> classify them into sizes for 16,22 and 24

Actually as the padlock is composited we could probably benefit from
compositing the icons for gsm/gprs, edge, umts, hsdpa and anything else
that comes along, maybe the recently submitted patch should be updated
to work in these terms?

BR,
 K