Re: New icons for nm-applet

[Karl Lattimer <karl qdh org uk>]

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 17:11 +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 12:50 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 16:11 +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote:
> > > 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?
> > 
> > Yes, that's what I replied to it with.  The code has "layers", and there
> > are currently two layers: device and VPN.  We can certainly add a mobile
> > broadband layer in which the mobile broadband badge goes.  Just need to
> > figure out where in the icon area that should go so it doesn't conflict
> > with the VPN lock.  Because you certainly can have an active VPN over
> > cellular.
> 
> Urgh, now we're starting to have problems... Colours are obviously going
> to be better as long as there is detailed explanation somewhere of what
> they mean. Mockups attached for discussion. 
> 
> vpn-umts.svg - My first impression of this is that it's starting to get
> crowded, and I can make the padlock smaller but loose detail which I
> feel is critical. 
> 
> vpn-umts2.svg - Slightly less crowded and more appealing I feel, only
> 3px tall to denote the technology, so we'll have to use vibrant colours
> which aren't in the tango palette :/

Thinking in these terms now, and maybe the signal strength bars can be
altered too...

K,