Re: Icon for gnucap?

Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 20:23 -0700, Justin Fuhrer wrote:
>> Justin Fuhrer wrote:
> 
>> Sorry, looks like the mailing list stripped my attachments.  See here 
>> instead:
>>
>> http://fb.xenostarz.com/index.php?fpp=10&did=3
> 
> If you wanted to include some anti-aliased elements, draw up the
> schematic portion of the symbol in a git HEAD gschem, (which features
> anti-aliased rendering), switch the grid off, and screen-capture at an
> appropriate size.

That's a good idea.  I avoided anti-aliasing altogether and redrew the 
wiring/components/graph by hand in pixel form for the 48x48 version.

> The symbology looks fine to me - although I guess implying that gnucap
> draws graphs is an aspiration to better plotting integration ;).
> 
> Doing icons for text based apps can be a challenge. Some kind of
> abstract logo (rather than program icon) would have also been another
> option - which avoids the need to design so it can be simplified to a
> scaled version (down to about 21x21px). I guess it just depends if
> anyone thinks gnucap ought to have a launcher in a GUI desktop's menu,
> or whether it only makes sense to run from a command line.

Thanks for this input, Peter, you're exactly right.  It's hard to 
reasonably represent a console-only data/analysis tool.  First try, 
anyway. :P

> The only concept I managed to come up with for gnucap would have been a
> circuit fragment, with a component (or perhaps the whole fragment
> graphic), hooked up to a graphic element looking like an ECG /
> oscilloscope / chart of some kind.

This isn't a bad idea, a circuit hooked up to a measurement machine. 
Works better than schematic + graph, in my mind.  I'll be back...

Thanks,

Justin