Re: Icons for core modules

Marty Vance <[email protected]> wrote in message <[email protected]>

> Robert Town wrote:
> > Seems to me this goes to your upstream idea, though I have to wonder, 
> > what % of icons will we still need to make, if it is great enough do we 
> > not stand a better chance just making our own set of 100% original icons?
> As a guess off the top of my head, we would need to make about 20 new 
> icons to replace all the icons currently in the core.  That many, or 
> maybe a few more, can be repurposed from Tango.
> For example, Tango has several edit icons, but none of them are just 
> "edit", they are all more specific:
> edit-clear
> edit-copy
> edit-cut
> edit-delete
> edit-find-replace
> edit-find
> edit-paste
> edit-redo
> edit-select-all
> edit-undo
> Our only use for these is probably in WYSIWYG modules, but there's 
> nothing broad enough in Tango we could apply to singluar terms we use: 
> edit/modify.
> Among the new icons I made, there is at least one that could readily go 
> upstream: Authsystem (the keyring).  GNOME and KDE both have keyring 
> applets, so that visual metaphor is an even better fit than it is for us.
> > 
> > Seems to me that is a missing area in the web apps age, an icon 
> > standard, and a central place to get said icons.
> My thinking is, if there is a growing standard corpus of desktop icons, 
> why not bring it onto the web?  If Drupal and probably other web apps 
> have adapted the Tango style (even while being cautious of license 
> incompatibility), then we might be able to work with Tango and other web 
> app projects to find a solution that makes it easier for Tango icons to 
> be used in GPL apps, web or otherwise.
> > 
> > Tango has some good standards, I agree with the naming and other parts 
> > of their standards but it seems some of it needs to be tweaked to apply 
> > well to web apps.
> I haven't thought much about if we would adopt Tango's naming 
> guidelines, much less how.  Many instances of simple a change.
> > 
> > Either way I do think it is about time this was explored. Could make 
> > dashboards, and menu icons a reality. Look forward to these or any icon 
> > solutions implemented!!
> Another issue is the image format we would use.  GIFs can be ugly due to 
> 1 bit transparency, depending on the icon and the underlying theme, JPG, 
> being lossy, is lousy for icons, and PNG support is famously lacking in 
> IE6.  Personally, I'd prefer PNG; IE6 can't go away fast enough.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > "Marty Vance" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
> > news:[email protected]...
> > 
> >>
> >> Yes, I was planning to pull icons for common operations from Tango.  
> >> But as I mentioned previously, Tango has some gaps that need to be 
> >> filled for web aaplications. 
> > 
> >