Re: [Sugar-devel] xo colors & gradients

2010-09-11 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Erik, On 11 Sep 2010, at 03:48, Erik Blankinship wrote: > Of course special cases like icons with alpha gradients may well be > measurably helped by such optimisations, but are not part of the core Sugar > style guidelines, > > Are there more guidelines than this? > > http://wiki.sugarlab

Re: [Sugar-devel] xo colors & gradients

2010-09-10 Thread Erik Blankinship
> > Of course special cases like icons with alpha gradients may well be > measurably helped by such optimisations, but are not part of the core Sugar > style guidelines, > Are there more guidelines than this? http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Sugar_Interface/Icons#Icon_D

Re: [Sugar-devel] xo colors & gradients

2010-09-07 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Erik, On 7 Sep 2010, at 19:01, Erik Blankinship wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Gary Martin > wrote: > I don't think I've seen any activity icons try this yet, but it might work > for some specific cases if it's not used to try and make 3d style shaded > button icons. > > > T

Re: [Sugar-devel] xo colors & gradients

2010-09-07 Thread Erik Blankinship
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Gary Martin wrote: > I don't think I've seen any activity icons try this yet, but it might work > for some specific cases if it's not used to try and make 3d style shaded > button icons. > > The sample activity icon with a graident I put on the almanac causes the

Re: [Sugar-devel] xo colors & gradients

2010-08-26 Thread Erik Blankinship
> > > Also see > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Almanac/Making_Icons > (and maybe add your findings) > Thanks for the link. I added a way to create the effect I had in mind using your suggested idea. I hope it is helpful to others in the future. __

Re: [Sugar-devel] xo colors & gradients

2010-08-23 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 23.08.2010, at 23:25, Erik Blankinship wrote: > > To lighten or darken, just use a plain stroke/fill color, and layer a > translucent white or black shape on top of it. > > > That is a great idea! Now, who here has the SVG skills to make an example of > how that would work? I will give

Re: [Sugar-devel] xo colors & gradients

2010-08-23 Thread Erik Blankinship
> > > To lighten or darken, just use a plain stroke/fill color, and layer a > translucent white or black shape on top of it. > > That is a great idea! Now, who here has the SVG skills to make an example of how that would work? I will give it a shot and see how I do. __

Re: [Sugar-devel] xo colors & gradients

2010-08-23 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 23.08.2010, at 23:07, Erik Blankinship wrote: > I would like to use stroke_color as the basis for a gradient. For example: > if stroke_color was #FF, I might want to generate #E6 and #FF1A1A > (darker and lighter, respectively). Maybe you can refer to me an activity > icon which doe

Re: [Sugar-devel] xo colors & gradients

2010-08-23 Thread Erik Blankinship
> > > (1) Is there a way to render gradients using the fill color? For > example, if the child's XO fill color is red, I would like to render an > activity icon using a red gradient. Maybe there are tricks in SVG which > make this possible? > > Yep, that's possible. Personally I edit all my SVGs

Re: [Sugar-devel] xo colors & gradients

2010-08-23 Thread Erik Blankinship
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > Use the entities. E.g. replace #ff with &stroke_color; > > Just look at the source of any activity icon. > > - Bert - > > Thank you for your response Bert. I have looked at a number of activity icons and have not yet seen behavior whi

Re: [Sugar-devel] xo colors & gradients

2010-08-23 Thread Gary Martin
Hi Erik, On 23 Aug 2010, at 18:52, Erik Blankinship wrote: > When I launch an activity, the SVG icon used to display my activity changes > appearance by rendering with the XO colors. > > (1) Is there a way to render gradients using the fill color? For example, if > the child's XO fill color

Re: [Sugar-devel] xo colors & gradients

2010-08-23 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Use the entities. E.g. replace #ff with &stroke_color; Just look at the source of any activity icon. - Bert - On 23.08.2010, at 22:03, Erik Blankinship wrote: > rephrased: How would I specify that I want sugar to use an XO color to create > a gradient when my activity is running? > > On

Re: [Sugar-devel] xo colors & gradients

2010-08-23 Thread Erik Blankinship
rephrased: How would I specify that I want sugar to use an XO color to create a gradient when my activity is running? On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Erik Blankinship wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Erik Blankinship >> wro

Re: [Sugar-devel] xo colors & gradients

2010-08-23 Thread Erik Blankinship
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Erik Blankinship > wrote: > > When I launch an activity, the SVG icon used to display my activity > changes > > appearance by rendering with the XO colors. > > (1) Is there a way to render gradients using the

Re: [Sugar-devel] xo colors & gradients

2010-08-23 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Erik Blankinship wrote: > When I launch an activity, the SVG icon used to display my activity changes > appearance by rendering with the XO colors. > (1) Is there a way to render gradients using the fill color?  For example, > if the child's XO fill color is red, I

[Sugar-devel] xo colors & gradients

2010-08-23 Thread Erik Blankinship
When I launch an activity, the SVG icon used to display my activity changes appearance by rendering with the XO colors. (1) Is there a way to render gradients using the fill color? For example, if the child's XO fill color is red, I would like to render an activity icon using a red gradient. May