Hey Jody,
On Apr 7, 2009, at 8:38 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
I assume you have read the information on the uDig imagery?
- http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/DEV/Imagery
- http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/DEV/Icons
I had not seen those, thanks for sending them along.
I would start by making sure you have a similar guideline for the
geosilk work (icon naming convention etc).
Next up I would make sure we have all the component parts used to
compose the icons. It would be useful to have this in SVG or similar
so different sizes could be constructued (however often find the
result looks poor at the small 16x16 size).
I read them over and started setting up similar documentation for
GeoSilk (http://projects.opengeo.org/geosilk/). We are basing things
on Silk because that is what is integrated with Ext (on which GeoExt
is based), so we can inherit the naming conventions used there.
Unfortunately, Silk is all raster and limited to 16x16.
The uDig icons and imagery are pretty strict as they want to fall in
line with Eclipse User Interface Guide lines (ie the amount of
transparent space to leave; and on which edge changed depending on the
use of the icon. I would also like to move to larger icons in a few
places; silk appears to be limited to 16x16?
The Eclipse UI Guidelines seem pretty well laid-out, but because we
are sticking with Silk in order to maintain consistency between Ext
and GeoExt we don't anticipate making anything aside from 16x16 icons.
I also do not mind the level of collaboration; I would like to make
sure that we use the same visual metaphor (even if we need to produce
a different image due to intended use).
Could you explain what you mean here?
I hope these ideas are useful? Do you have a wiki page on geosilk to
take notes etc?
Just made it: http://projects.opengeo.org/geosilk/
Thanks!
--
Rolando Peñate
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
Jody
PS. I went and check the eclipse user interface guide lines and they
have been finally updated for 3.x series
(http://wiki.eclipse.org/User_Interface_Guidelines#Style_.26_Design).
I find that to be very nicely written.
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Rolando Penate <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hey Jody,
I'd love to collaborate on a more fleshed out GeoSilk set. This one
has been
generated on an as needed basis starting at the geospatial sprint
in Bolsena
last year and was sort of a rushed creature of necessity. As you
observed,
and the readme attests, it's an effort to bring the uDig
iconography in line
with the Silk set. How would you like to proceed?
--
Rolando Peñate
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
On Apr 7, 2009, at 7:34 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
* Rollie's been curating a set of GeoSilk icons for styler, which
includes icons to indicate vector-based / rasterized output. It'd be
nice to use these in the 'Type' column instead of the strings
"Vector"
and "Raster". We could include tooltip text to clarify for newer
users
via the "title" attribute.
The "GeoSilk" set, along with the canonical Silk set
(http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/
), are the ones used elsewhere throughout this new UI. You can find
the most up-to-date version here: http://files.opengeo.org/geosilk/
I am open to collaboration on icons; indeed I recognize some of my
work in that directory. In particular I would like to produce vector
icons for some of the more commonly used imagery.
Jody
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