Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le Mer 4 avril 2007 08:45, Luya Tshimbalanga a écrit : > >> Just made a quick icons for menu editor and package manager based on >> current Echo version. In case of 24x24, they will be retouched with >> Gimp. More icons will come. >> > > Some remarks (I know I'm a pest): > Better get a remarks so it will be possible to track many issues as possible and fix as we can =)
> 1. I don't like the menu editor icon at all. If you don't know it's a menu > editor, you won't guess : the menu part is difficult to distinguish, and > the pen is associated with writing text, not composing menus. I'd rework > the menu bit and remove the pen. Probably taking something like the > classic "add line in a table" icon as base. Right now at fist sight it > looks like yet another office/text editor icon. > It was an attempt to reproduce the current menu-editor icons available on FC6. I will rework it. > Generally speaking the isometric perspective echo chose makes this kind of > icon difficult to create, since it reduces the effective space and slants > common symbols. It works with 3d objects but not with 2d objects and > pictograms > > (Note: I'm typically using >= 100 dpi screens, and they'll only get more > common now Vista lifted the old 96dpi windows resolution clamping. That > means I may see have somewhat smaller pixels than you, with smaller icons) > > Ah ah. you use Microsoft Vista reference. =-O I will take account about the dpi in the future. > 2. I'd remove the CD & gray box on the second one (no idea if it's > supposed to be a PC tower case or a CD+manual box). The main > installation/update method is network nowadays, and almost no one gets his > Linux software in cardboard boxes. Maybe a pile of greyed-out closed > packages with one colorful open package in the foreground would work > better. > > I am considering using a Globe instead of CD. And yes, the grey box is a PC tower. Be in mind it is just a draft. Luya
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