Hi, I think we need to be up to date with technology, so I started downloading the One Canvas Workflow screencast by jimmac [1]. I haven't tried it yet (but going to do so very soon), but from the people who already tried it and shared their thoughts about it, it seems like it would be improvement for the Echo Icon Theme creation workflow. I ask for your opinion about this, I'll give mine, when I try it ;-) Also, from what I heard and can imagine, the One Canvas Workflow has much more consequences than having only one picture for all sizes. I can imagine we could completely automate the process of pushing new icon to git. My idea of the workflow is such: * artist runs some script/programme which creates new (empty) icon from template with given name and open it in inkscape * artist fill the template with the icons (i.e. draws them), following the Echo Icon Theme Guidelines and One Canvas Workflow Guidelines (not sure if there are any tutorials beside the aforementioned screencast) * once accepted by the Echo Team, artist will run another script/programme which creates all the necessary icons (PNGs and SVG) from the source one-canvas-workflow SVG and push them into git, together with canonical commit message like 'Adding new/Fixing <icon-name> icon set.' It would be great if it also could add the icon into the build scripts/create necessary symlinks (depending on branch). My idea what the artist would be asked for are these things: * icon name * branches to which he wants to commit the icon to * additional symlinks (not those covered by icon-naming-utils) * Is it new icon or modification/fix? What is your opinion about this? IMHO it would greatly easier the job of echo contributors. I am mostly able to achieve those goals by combining my bash and C skills, but it would not be ideal. If it was written in bash only it would be probably best... Anyone willing to help, if we decide to go that way? Suggestions? Comments? References: [1] http://blip.tv/file/1075329?filename=Jimmac-OneCanvasWorkflow306.ogg
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