Re: [Echo] preferences-system-firewall sketches

2008-07-09 Thread Martin Sourada
On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 20:10 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: The lock is barely visible given the dominance of the bright brick color. How about placing Internet icon behind the wall? It might looks like *cough* Microsoft Windows Defender but other Firewall icons are not that great IMHO.

Re: [Echo] preferences-system-firewall sketches

2008-07-09 Thread Nicu Buculei
Martin Sourada wrote: Hm... I'll try the one with Globe, though I am not sure if it would work. Also, looking at the MS Win Defender icon, I'll perhaps try stone wall... And with the red one + lock - I'll perhaps try darker red for bricks and bigger lock. Is it really that bad visible in 48x48 -

Re: [Echo] system-software It's my reply

2008-07-09 Thread TransNet Informática
Sorry, Martin, but your emails are empty of context, even your atachments... You did send a lot of e-mails to me...all of them are empty, no filles, no attachments...maybe I'm not knowing how to do... Could you explain me exactly what I must to do? Uh, my internet connection is once a day, from

[Echo] preference-system-date sketches

2008-07-09 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
Quick sketches of that icon extracted from new-appointment status. Unlike Bluecurve version, only the clock is used in order to make icon less cluttered. Feedback welcome. Luya inline: preference-system-date32.pnginline: preference-system-date32.svginline: preference-system-date48.pnginline:

Re: [Echo] preferences-system-firewall sketches

2008-07-09 Thread Martin Sourada
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 10:59 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: For me it wasn't about the size but about the contrast: dark red lock painted on a red wall. A stone wall (grey?) will probably improve this. The one with lock as standalone object was well for you in that aspect? Yeah, I meant grey wall

Re: [Echo] preferences-system-firewall sketches

2008-07-09 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
Nicu Buculei a écrit : Anyway, it seems a wall made from red bricks and *something* is the most common used metaphor for such icon, so we should stay with it, at it will be easily recognized by users. Maybe to not copy the icon from Windows, protect a *computer* with the wall? Will that

Re: [Echo] system-software It's my reply

2008-07-09 Thread Nicu Buculei
TransNet Informática wrote: Sorry, Martin, but your emails are empty of context, even your atachments... You did send a lot of e-mails to me...all of them are empty, no filles, no attachments...maybe I'm not knowing how to do... You are receiving the mail because you are subscribed to the

Re: [Echo] preferences-system-firewall sketches

2008-07-09 Thread Nicu Buculei
Martin Sourada wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 10:59 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: BTW, do you think is good to use GIMP tricks to improve display? This way the binary (PNG) can't be built directly from source and would make the life harder for derivatives. The antialiasing seems to work rather

Re: [Echo] preferences-system-firewall sketches

2008-07-09 Thread Martin Sourada
As promised, here is next batch of sketches of preferences-system-firewall. I modified the wall to use darker shades of red and also to have slightly different bricks so they are not all same. In the first take I also changed the lock to better contrast with the wall, in the second take I tried

Re: [Echo] preferences-system-firewall sketches

2008-07-09 Thread Máirín Duffy
Martin Sourada wrote: As promised, here is next batch of sketches of preferences-system-firewall. I modified the wall to use darker shades of red and also to have slightly different bricks so they are not all same. In the first take I also changed the lock to better contrast with the wall, in

Re: [Echo] New guide - Adding new icons

2008-07-09 Thread Martin Sourada
On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 20:21 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: 2008/7/7 Martin Sourada [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Because the tutorial also aimed to artists, perhaps an illustrations of process will be useful. -- Luya Tshimbalanga http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/LuyaTshimbalanga Fedora

Re: [Echo] preference-system-date sketches

2008-07-09 Thread Martin Sourada
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 01:06 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: Quick sketches of that icon extracted from new-appointment status. Unlike Bluecurve version, only the clock is used in order to make icon less cluttered. Feedback welcome. Luya I think the metaphor is good. Did you tried adding a

Re: [Echo] preferences-system-firewall sketches

2008-07-09 Thread Jayme Ayres
Maybe looks good to use a burned orange... 2008/7/9 Máirín Duffy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Martin Sourada wrote: As promised, here is next batch of sketches of preferences-system-firewall. I modified the wall to use darker shades of red and also to have slightly different bricks so they are not all