On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:22:57 +0300 Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Robin Norwood wrote: > > o Pick an appropriately-sized icon png (probably 48x48). > > - We could also store svg instead of png. > > I don't think there is a need to store the SVG, there is no > straightforward way to embed in in a web page (and have it rendered > correctly by all browsers). Cool. I was thinking perhaps convert to png's at the desired size on the server side, but that doesn't seem as straightforward as I'd hoped. png's should be fine. > > o When picking an icon to show the user, pick the one from their > > currently-selected theme and OS (if we know it), falling back to an > > icon from the Fedora or 'generic' theme. > > I am curious to identify which icon theme is the user using. The > browser does not know this info, the only way I can imagine it > working is to have smolt reporting the theme and link data from smolt > with amber. I don't think you want to go this route (complicated, > privacy issues, smolt is off by default) Ah. Well, to do the actual package install, we'll be using a browser plugin (probably) which will probably send us some limited information - like what version of Fedora the user is running, for instance. It might be possible to include the current theme in this info. > > Does this sound sane? I don't know enough about how icons work to > > know if I've missed something. > > I want to add that we are not sure at this time which icon set will > be used in F10 as default, we try to have Echo but we may end staying > one more cycle with Mist (but this should be easy to solve, both > themes are using the same naming structure). OK. I'll keep an eye out on this list for updates. Thanks, -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. "The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone." -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching _______________________________________________ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
