Re: Need input for creating new icon

2011-08-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 13:04 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:21:17AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: Of course with this method SVG is not an option If you _did_ have an SVG, then I can tell you that this is the only format you need. GNOME and XFCE appear to be

Re: Need input for creating new icon

2011-08-18 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:21:17AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: Of course with this method SVG is not an option If you _did_ have an SVG, then I can tell you that this is the only format you need. GNOME and XFCE appear to be happy to generate all the required icons and sizes needed from a

Need input for creating new icon

2011-08-17 Thread Richard Shaw
I'm working on packaging the spacenav group of programs one of which is a gui app to setup the configuration of the spacenav daemon. It currently doesn't provide an icon so I thought I'd try my hand at it. Which resolutions do I really need to provide? Since I'm a CAD guy I used Unigraphics to

Re: Need input for creating new icon

2011-08-17 Thread Jon Ciesla
Richard Shaw wrote: I'm working on packaging the spacenav group of programs one of which is a gui app to setup the configuration of the spacenav daemon. It currently doesn't provide an icon so I thought I'd try my hand at it. Which resolutions do I really need to provide? Since I'm a CAD

Re: Need input for creating new icon

2011-08-17 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Jon Ciesla l...@jcomserv.net wrote: I've always made 48x48 PNGs.  I don't really know why, but no one's ever complained. I think that's the Gnome 2 default but the icons in gnome shell seem bigger so I saved 128x128 and 256x258 ones as well. I am not an artist

Re: Need input for creating new icon

2011-08-17 Thread Jon Ciesla
Richard Shaw wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Jon Ciesla l...@jcomserv.net wrote: I've always made 48x48 PNGs. I don't really know why, but no one's ever complained. I think that's the Gnome 2 default but the icons in gnome shell seem bigger so I saved 128x128 and 256x258

Re: Need input for creating new icon

2011-08-17 Thread Richard Shaw
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Jon Ciesla l...@jcomserv.net wrote: Taking into account my total unfamiliarity with the project, is there anything about that image that says Oh, look, it's spacenav! to those who are familiar?  Otherwise they look fine. Yes, anyone who wanted the app would

Re: Need input for creating new icon

2011-08-17 Thread Jon Ciesla
Richard Shaw wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Jon Ciesla l...@jcomserv.net wrote: Taking into account my total unfamiliarity with the project, is there anything about that image that says Oh, look, it's spacenav! to those who are familiar? Otherwise they look fine. Yes,