Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 15, Issue 114

2009-06-27 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Jim Simmons wrote: I found that when I tried to use my icon with the fill_style variable in Sugar it displays with no fill whatsoever, so you just see a jumble of lines instead of an image. One mistake that I made many times was replacing the fill color with fill_color. In fact, it must be

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 15, Issue 114

2009-06-27 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Jim, On 27 Jun 2009, at 03:02, Jim Simmons wrote: The problem with books on a shelf is that Aleksey is already using that image for his Library Activity and I think it is more fitting for that because he is creating a sort of electronic bookshelf, whereas I'm creating a card catalog. The

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 15, Issue 114

2009-06-27 Thread Jim Simmons
Gary, The ideas are not bad. I've kind of grown attached to what I have so I think I'll stick with that for release 1, which I am debugging as I write this. It's coming along pretty well. Maybe a third idea is to have the original Read icon with a small Browse icon inside it and speed lines

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 15, Issue 114

2009-06-26 Thread Frederick Grose
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: Fred, Your points are the same ones I had. There is no animation in the icon, though. Not sure what you're seeing. Interesting.. The .svg file opened in Ubuntu9.04 and showed a box being constructed from the base up.

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 15, Issue 114

2009-06-26 Thread Jim Simmons
Fred, The problem with books on a shelf is that Aleksey is already using that image for his Library Activity and I think it is more fitting for that because he is creating a sort of electronic bookshelf, whereas I'm creating a card catalog. I found that when I tried to use my icon with the

Re: [IAEP] IAEP Digest, Vol 15, Issue 114

2009-06-26 Thread Frederick Grose
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com wrote: ... ...just unhappy with *what* I'm drawing. I'm really looking for a better symbol. Maybe a book with speed lines, like it's being thrown. How about a vertical stack of books like when you're ready to check out at