Eben and Tony: I like your design, but if I decide to go with something like that I think my Inkscape skills are good enough to duplicate it. I think Tony makes some really good points though, so what I think I'll do is go with my own (Gary Martin inspired) design with the speed lines for now. I was not so much concerned that kids wouldn't know what speed lines are as I was that what I had drawn would be recognizable as speed lines. And apparently they are.
I should have release 2 of this Activity ready in a few days. The new one will have multiline table cells for long titles or lists of authors, a progress bar to indicate download progress, and the ability to choose between DJVU and PDF as a download format. This last feature is to accommodate .82 users which have a Read Activity that does not support DJVU well. Thanks to everyone who commented or tried to come up with designs. James Simmons On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Eben Eliason<[email protected]> wrote: > Here's my two cents. (see attached) > > I like the use of the browse icon, but I've found that rendering it as > a fill, rather than a stroke, works far better at small sizes. While I > like the stack of books, I'm afraid it doesn't read clearly at first > glance. I decided to try stamping the internet logo on the cover of > the book, almost like it's an atlas of the internet archive, both to > conserve space and to simplify a bit. > > I'll pull together a proper Sugarized SVG if it's desired. > > Eben > > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:21 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> Jim >> >> I like the icon of the browser on the open book >> To me it says: get a book from the internet >> >> Unlike the other suggestions, it can be interpreted without any prior >> knowledge, because it builds on the Browse and book reader icons which have >> their meaning defined within Sugar by these Activities. >> >> The motion lines require the reader to know this comic strip convention but >> the icon can be interpreted without understanding the motion lines. >> >> For third world kids, card catalogues will not work, I doubt they have seen >> a lot of hard bound books or bookshelves either. Mostly I think they use >> cheaper staple bound books. >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyforster1/3420467967/ >> photo, cheap staple bound textbooks, Peru >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyforster1/3676084455/ >> photo, single room school, Peru. No card catalogues, hard bound books or >> bookshelves in sight. (There was however a PC which they hid under the white >> cloth to the left, presuming that tourists would not want modern artefacts >> in their photos. As a missionary school, I expect it is better funded than a >> government school) >> >> Tony _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
