Στις 30-09-2007, ημέρα Κυρ, και ώρα 17:42 +0200, ο/η Martin Sourada έγραψε: > On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 17:29 +0200, Mark wrote: > > 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). > > [...] > > > > 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 > > > > This idea is crazy (in good meaning). It could be implemented, but it > would not be much simple and I wonder if anyone would be willing to > implement it... BUT, we could at least simplify the creation of the > icons themselves - imagine you draw a SVG of a battery, in a side file > you describe which of the elements is to be changed and how and run it > through some script and voila you have a complete SVG set, now export > PNGs from it and you're done... IMHO implementation of this is more > possible... > > As for the animation... it IS possible, but noone implemented its > support yet anywhere AFAIK (SVG is XML after all...) but it would be too > much CPU consuming, just completely useless eye-candy (far more useless > then wobbly windows)... Maybe useless eye-kandy for the battery icon, but it does open up exciting possibilities, no? :) How do other applications do it (eg. with cairo)? Maybe the Desktop mailing list could help out with this. It might be easier than we think. -d -- Dimitris Glezos Jabber ID: glezos@xxxxxxxxxx, GPG: 0xA5A04C3B http://dimitris.glezos.com/ "He who gives up functionality for ease of use loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous) -- _______________________________________________ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
