On Friday 08 October 2004 07:17 am, Vladimir Savic wrote: > I'm a little bored! :( > > I cann't compose with rg due hardware synth issues. Untill this problem is > solved... > > Do you mind if I try to redraw mentioned icon. I'll try to use the same > idea. This question if especially applied to Silvan :)
What do you think is wrong with the icon? Is it a bad concept, lopsided, too fuzzy, what? I don't remember anyone complaining about it before. I don't really quite like it, now that you mention it, but this isn't really a good time to be changing icons either, with our being in feature freeze and all. We should probably defer changing it until after 1.0. If it's more of a massage than a rewrite, we might stick it in anyway. Hafta see it first. If you want to work on icons, another project that could use doing, unless Chris or Guillaume have some objection, is switching all the notation editor icons from .xpm format to .png and getting rid of all the little fake antialiasing that was done with gray pixels, in favor of using true antialiasing with the alpha channel. It would require changing all the code and probably the autoconf pre-Makefile stuff too, and there are a lot of them to do. I'm not sure if there's a memory overhead problem using .png instead of .xpm. I'm not sure why .xpm was chosen at all. It could simply be that that's what apps were using when they got started on this project, and it's a bit of a legacy. (Most things I've looked at lately use .png icons extensively, if not exclusively.) Of course, a potential down side is that with true and proper antialiasing on all these icons, they would simply disappear entirely against a black background. I'm not sure what can be done to improve that, short of outlining them, which would probably just look terrible everywhere. I can't quite remember why I have it in my head that this needs doing either. I think maybe people complained about how bad these look against, say, dark blue backgrounds or something. It's probably worth waiting for someone else to chime in on some of these questions before you go to all that trouble. Also, if you do get into that, you should be aware that bloody battles have been fought at the pixel level on those things, so we're not inviting you to change the shape/proportion/message of any of them. There's no creativity on the table here, just pure scut work. Speaking of which, there are two tr icons on the notation toolbar. It's probably definitely too late to change that for 1.0, but it annoys me. The bottom one is "trill with a wavy line" and the only way to tell them apart is to remember that the wavy line one is on the bottom. That's lame. Also, I have a RFE out for a "remove all marks" icon to be added. It will be the very first new code I commit after 1.0 because the absence of that toolbar action is really annoying me, but I wouldn't object at all if someone else wants to draw the icon. While you're at it there are a couple of other notation actions I want to toolbarify. I don't remember what they are at the moment, but I'll let you know. The new stuff won't get in until after the release, but that shouldn't stop you from alleviating your boredom now. So go ahead and knock yourself out. If we don't like your submissions, we won't use them. No harm either way in your entertaining yourself for awhile. -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
