brian, yes, very much agreed.
cheers, m Mike Stern Visual Designer, xDesign 650 / 786-6542 mike.stern at sun.com On Apr 21, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: > > Mike: > > Yes I understand that we do not use Tango icons, but I still think > it is good for Sun to encourage mentoring within the GNOME community > in general, not just for what benefits Sun directly. If people wanted > to help out with graphic design in GNOME (doing things like helping to > move to the Tango standard, improve docs, etc.), I'd think we'd still > be happy to mentor them. > > Brian > > >> We are not planning on incorporating the tango project icons on >> JDS because we are in the process of creating a comprehensive set >> of Sun branded icons to replace what we currently have. However, >> some of the symbolism will shift to match Tango icons. Now WRT >> a11y icons, we certainly realize that the current set is totally >> insufficient. There is no set plan to create new large print >> icons but we can batch process the new icons for low and high >> contrast themes. However, in the design process, vector graphics >> are being generated that will hopefully enable production of large >> print icons when we get to that. >> I wish I could say that the large print icons were forthcoming but >> it's just me making icons right now so it's one step at a time. >> Cheers, >> m. >> Mike Stern >> Visual Designer, xDesign >> 650 / 786-6542 >> mike.stern at sun.com <mailto:stern at sun.com> >> On Apr 19, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Brian Cameron wrote: >>> >>> John: >>> >>> Some more ideas of projects that we could do. >>> >>> + We know that there are many missing a11y icons, and general >>> work in >>> the GNOME community migrating to the Tango icons, general >>> usability >>> and HIG problems. It would be great to get some icon designers to >>> help flesh out a11y icons. >>> >>> + User docs, API docs, and manpages are other areas where the GNOME >>> community could use more help. There might be tech writers out >>> there >>> who would be interested in working on improving these areas. >>> >>> + QA Testing. We have a lot of interesting in-house experience >>> doing >>> things like testing a11y. I'd think there would be people out >>> there >>> who would get into a mentor relationship where they learned the >>> ins >>> and outs of a11y QA testing, especially with Section 508 >>> requirements >>> becoming more of an issue for many organizations. >>> >>> + a11y. I'm sure the a11y team could think of a number of projects >>> that would be interesting. Dictation software, magnification >>> using >>> compositing, getting libgail to stop using libgnomecanvas, and >>> writing ORCA scripts are ideas that come to mind. >>> >>> Brian >>> >>> >>>> Jim Grisanzio has kicked this off as a general request for >>>> participation from all the OpenSolaris projects: >>>> http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=7878&tstart=0 >>>> <http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=7878&tstart=0> >>>> Anyone any desktop related ideas that would be suitable? >>>> Easy: >>>> Add Gnome Applet support as sample project in Netbeans - using >>>> Java Gnome bindings. >>>> Medium: >>>> Reduce memory consumption of Gtk+ hello world application. >>>> Hard: >>>> Modify Firefox's tabbing behaviour to allow it to run with >>>> reduced memory requirements, only hold images in memory for >>>> currently visible tab. Plenty of other optimisations that could >>>> be looked at to allow Firefox to run better ina memory >>>> constrained environment. >>>> Darren - I'm sure you have loads from the Linux gaps analysis >>>> and the System Tools project, so just fire ahead. >>>> Glynn - I assume the best thing here is for you to put up a >>>> Google Summer of Code page on the OpenSolaris Desktop home page, >>>> that Jim can point to. >>>> JR >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> desktop-discuss mailing list >>>> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org <mailto:desktop- >>>> discuss at opensolaris.org> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> desktop-discuss mailing list >>> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org <mailto:desktop- >>> discuss at opensolaris.org> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20060421/7f34d8d7/attachment.html>
