Hey, I was just looking throught the echo icons [1] and saw the battery icons there (which are extremely nice) but i was wondering if those icons could be made scripted? This is the idea: The bettery applet shows in the notification applet and requests the bettery icon (called batteryScript for now) with value 60 (0 - 100 meaning 0 (%) is empty and 100 (%) is full). Now batteryScript should draw the battery icon with the value 60 (60% bettery is pritty decent so the icon should result in something like [2]) I would also say that the batteryScript has this for the 0 and 100 values: 0 = (light)green 100 = (dark)red and a color in between 0 and 100 should be just created by the the script (for example: 25 = darkgreen, 50 = orange, 75 = darker orange (or light red) and the 96 other images) The Advantages: - No need to make 100 different battery icons (all done by the script). you just supply one basic image and the script fills it in. - The battery notification will get a lot more precise than is possible with the current icons - Just one icon needs to be changed if changes are required (instead of all the battery icons) - There must be more... The Disadvantages: - If you change that one icon you will likely have to change the script as well - it's probably a little more CPU intensive than a basic .png icon.. (but it should still be just a tiny bit of cpu power) The big questions: - Is this possible? If yes? how? - What do you think of it? btw. animating the battery icon would be cool as well. for example adding in some boiling bubbles when charging up.. but that's a completely different idea and probable (?) hard to do with SVG's [1] https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/echo-icon-theme/wiki/IconThemeStatus [2] http://git.fedoraproject.org/?p=hosted/echo-icon-theme;a=blob_plain;f=trunk/Echo/48x48/status/battery-high.png;hb=HEAD _______________________________________________ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
