Quoting Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: > > > Of course they do, *any* change is a plus, Bluecurve is really showing > its age. It was nice and served us well but we should put it to rest at > some point. So can we help Bluecurve to gracefully retire by working altogether even though we cannot reach IRC. How about any Artwork team stand up? > > To my shame, I worked only on very few icons. At least you were honest, > A lot of things are needed: > - clear guidelines: developing Echo is hard, icons have a certain > perspective, complex shapes, surfaces are filled with gradients, objects > have lighting and shadows and all those are *not* documented, so for a > new icon you have to study the other and guess. For example I can't > submit an Echo color palette upstream to Inkscape because there is no > one (but they have a Tango palette). > - no one is pushing Echo. Look at Tango Fridays: one day each week they > get together and create icons. Pushing also means advertise: blog about > the theme development, post on forums, write on the mailing list. And > submit on your own icons to upstream applications, just as Tango people do. > - as I already said, creating Echo icons is not easy so new contributors > with little experience will need advices, help and guidance, otherwise > the number of contributors will remain small. > - indeed, we have the sources as SVG, but have you looked at the source > of the majority of icons? Is horrible and bloated, made with Adobe > Illustrator, so the first thing when you work on a derivative is to > clean the initial icon. > With all those said and few other I missed at the moment I personally do > not have big faith in Echo. > So it will take someone to etablish a strong strategy. Echo Guidelines [1] is available for your information. > Too bad that we make good people turn away when exactly the opposite is > needed. Mostly due the inertia on Artwork team. Can we show we can do less talk more action? [1]http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/EchoIconGuidelines -- Luya Tshimbalanga Fedora Project contributor http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/LuyaTshimbalanga _______________________________________________ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
