Thanks, Martin. I think you should take a look at Equinox to see how they made their advanced progressbars - those are stunning! :D // Kris 2010/4/20 Martin Sourada <martin.sourada@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 23:04 +0200, Kris Thomsen wrote: >> Your work look very good so far :) >> >> Will play a little with Inkscape when I get the time. How do I make >> widgets? Are there some templates or rules to follow for the different >> parts? > Rules? No. Limitations -- yes: even though the code is written in C and > we can get pretty wild, it's still not a good thing to draw outside of > widget's allocated space (thus to draw shadows, we need to make the > actual drawing of the widget a bit smaller,...), the more complex you > design the widget, the slower it will draw, think about usability -- > does it stand out enough, does it fit well with the rest of the > theme, ...? Also, we are not supposed to know the progress of > progressbars we are drawing, so advanced effects on their fill are out > of question, ... > > I'm not aware of templates either, I just use things like masks, rounded > rectangles, circles and gradients (all of these are easily replicated > with Cairo in the drawing code when implementing it). > > I attach an SVG with the widgets I originally designed for the code you > just built, to have some reference/example, plus you can get more SVG > examples on the bottom of the 0.8.x brainstorm page (these are mostly > obsoleted older designs, but for reference good enough): > > https://fedorahosted.org/nodoka/wiki/0.8.x_Brainstorm > > Martin > > > _______________________________________________ > design-team mailing list > design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team > _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
