Re: Echo bad

2007-09-17 Thread Nicu Buculei
Mark wrote: Thanx for the quick reply's at this moment i'm still kinda struggling with inkshape and i'm stuck with it. 1. Oke. the SVG's don't have the shodows that i see in the png? so how do you add those in the SVG? This is because at first Echo was developed with Illustrator (Diana's

Re: Fedora 8 Test 2 Desktop Live Echo Icon Review

2007-09-17 Thread Nicu Buculei
Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote: I can't say I love Echo, because I would lie. Nobody asked that, but I do not like Echo is a world apart than I hate Echo (I am also not a huge fan of Echo) Good example of non-shiny icons are Windows XP icons, but shiness makes icons look professional - look

Re: Infinity GDM mockup

2007-09-17 Thread Nicu Buculei
Máirín Duffy wrote: Okay, I have a working GDM theme now, it mostly uses the work done by Tobias Oelgarte for Avio. If you'd like to try it out, you can add the It seems easier to edit compared with Flying High, where de dialog was composed from a lot of blocks. Would it be better to use

Re: Echo bad

2007-09-17 Thread Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek
So, Fedora 9 will include Echo icons (surely) - I must to be ready for Tangoish-Attack (Tangoish icons replacing all Fedora icons and pixmaps for applications). ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com

Re: Echo bad

2007-09-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote: So, Fedora 9 will include Echo icons (surely) As has been said already, that decision will be made depending on how well the theme coverage is among other factors. You might want to avoid making such assertions on your own. Other icon themes can very well exist

Re: Fedora 8 Test 2 Icon Review

2007-09-17 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 12:46 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: Can you add gtk-icon-sizes=panel-foobar=24,24:panel-menu=24,24 to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and try again ? Does it look better ? So, this helps for apps that only install a 48x48 app icon, like gthumb, but it makes the situation

Re: Fedora 8 Test 2 Icon Review

2007-09-17 Thread Martin Sourada
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 18:51 +0200, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 12:46 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: Can you add gtk-icon-sizes=panel-foobar=24,24:panel-menu=24,24 to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and try again ? Does it look better ? So, this helps for apps that

Re: Fedora 8 Test 2 Icon Review

2007-09-17 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 19:53 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote: On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 18:51 +0200, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 12:46 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: Can you add gtk-icon-sizes=panel-foobar=24,24:panel-menu=24,24 to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and try

Echo: package-x-generic attempt

2007-09-17 Thread Mark
Hey, There was another topic here (Echo bad) where i filed my list of complaints about alot of the current echo icon theme. One of them is the package-x-generic icon (or just the update/box icon). So i grabbed the SVG and edited it here and there. I also changed the sizes a little (fatter border

Re: Echo: package-x-generic attempt

2007-09-17 Thread Mark
Interesting reply's i will make a second attempt and this time with those icon guidelines + color palette. @ Martin: partly missing outline What do you mean by that? ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com

Re: Fedora 8 Test 2 Desktop Live Echo Icon Review

2007-09-17 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
Repost, for some reasons the reply won't show up on mail-list. In my opinion it is better to use Mist iconset even in F9, F10 etc. Don't you think it is premature given neither release is out and there areabout six mounths distance? Echo on this stage aren't ready. Also, Echo will be messing

Re: Echo: Wrong metaphor for save/save as

2007-09-17 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek a écrit : Hi, it's me, again. I want to tell you about save and save as icons: they're using wrong metaphor. You mean the very old metaphor that exist ssince the use of the old floppy disk back to the 80's. BTW, are you the guy who attended at Libre Graphics

Re: Echo: package-x-generic attempt

2007-09-17 Thread Martin Sourada
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 22:46 +0200, Mark wrote: Interesting reply's i will make a second attempt and this time with those icon guidelines + color palette. @ Martin: partly missing outline What do you mean by that? You maybe call it border. I see it only on the bottom parts of the nox and

Re: Fedora 8 Test 2 Icon Review

2007-09-17 Thread Rogue
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Sourada wrote: Also, during the review I have done for Echo icons, I have found that some applications do not install their icons into the hicolor icon theme while they are recommended to do so [2]. 22x22 is just a really bad idea, since

Re: Echo: package-x-generic attempt

2007-09-17 Thread Mark
You maybe call it border. I see it only on the bottom parts of the nox and that's wrong. It should be around whole box - it helps to define the shape against various backgrounds. Martin O that. the default icon doesn't have that.. i only made the current borders a little fatter i'm making a

Echo: Wrong metaphor for save/save as

2007-09-17 Thread Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek
Hi, it's me, again. I want to tell you about save and save as icons: they're using wrong metaphor. Tango! and GNOME migrated from floppy icon to hdd. You should too. ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com

Re: Echo: package-x-generic attempt

2007-09-17 Thread Mark
Oke new attempt. I've really outdone myself.. this image is made from scratch I think it looks better and it fits the echo theme (or that's my opinion) Take a look at the images [1] (16x16), [2] (64x64), [3] (128x128), [4] (256x256) and the SVG [5]. The whole box idea is changed in this image.

Re: Echo: package-x-generic attempt

2007-09-17 Thread Mark
Oke.. i adjusted some of the critics - Fatter border - no transparency - changed the light a little - changed the shadow a little - changed overall color gradients a little I can't make it so that the box would be gap less when you would close it.. but that's to much of detail for just an icon...

Re: Echo: Wrong metaphor for save/save as

2007-09-17 Thread Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek
BTW, are you the guy who attended at Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 at Montreal with cellphone drawing demonstration using Inkscape? Eee, no. ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com

Tree-view grid lines in Fedora theme

2007-09-17 Thread Peter Bloomfield
Greetings! I'm a new subscriber to this list. Fedora artwork rocks! I always feel that folks glancing over my shoulder will see a really sophisticated desktop. But (of course, there's a 'but') a recent Fedora default theme sets vertical grid lines in GtkTreeView--and they're not nice