As for the choice of drawing software, this will likely be decided by whoever steps up to do the first batch of 50-60 icons.
That said, the choice of tool is primarily a question of which crowd to attract. Using Inkscape will be attractive to programmers (most of the people on this list), and people who are using vector drawing software for the first time. This crowd does _not_ tend to produce good-looking graphics--after all, it's not what they do for a living. Using Adobe Illustrator will be attractive to people who already have Illustrator installed on their machine--meaning they probably already know how to use it, and are probably graphic design professionals. This is exactly the crowd we'd like contributions from here. Mandating Inkscape will also actively exclude graphic design professionals, who will find it unattractive to switch tools, when they already spent years learning Adobe software. -- Eirik -----Original Message----- From: Glenn Holmer <ce...@kolabnow.com.INVALID> Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 4:10 PM To: dev@netbeans.apache.org Subject: Status of converting icons to SVG On 9/9/20 2:02 PM, Matthias Bläsing wrote: > I still fail to see the difference between repetetive work on the code > base working on source code and repetetive work on graphics. > > I worked for a company where the graphics designers were the only ones > using mac OS systems. So did I: I won't repeat the number, but I was told by our systems guys that it cost an outrageous amount of money for a new guy in that department to sit down on his first day of work. > Reasoning was, that their work could only be done on these machines. > They were special somehow and I still don't grasp it. At that time > other OSes could run their software and other OSes could be color > calibrated. > > I see this again: Now graphics designers need "their" software to > work, the one available to all potential contributors is not good > enough. Now graphics designers need to be paid, contrary to other > contributors. > > I will pull out of this discussion - I said what I had to say and it > would be great if other people say what they think. 100% agree. If we need to expand the pool of contributors to people who work in /open source/ design, then let's try and do that. This is Apache, not Adobe. -- Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) "After the vintage season came the aftermath -- and Cenbe." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
