I created a couple versions of the 24px icon with color variations and menu element size variations. I also created a 48px icon. And I created a page that makes it easier to view the variations... http://xorengineering.com/dev/icons/ On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Bryan Nielsen <bnielsen1965@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The nit picking is appreciated. :) > > I reduced the number of entries on the menu and I'm not sure if this > is better or not but I increased the height of each item so I could > get another pixel on the triangle selector so it would be more > defined. > > I also created a version with menu colors that are probably more > standard for the dialog. > > http://xorengineering.com/dev/working-24.png > http://xorengineering.com/dev/working-24-2.png > > I think I like the shorter menu items better but I'm not sure what to > do with the selector triangle. Maybe it would look okay with the short > menu items but with one more pixel of spacing and keep the taller > selector triangle. > > > > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Jakub Steiner <jsteiner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> ----- "Bryan Nielsen" <bnielsen1965@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Lots of good information, making good looking icons that are small is >>> quite the chore. :) I'm not sure how good I will be at touching up >>> the >>> small raster images after rendering but I'll give it a shot. >>> >>> This is a bit out of the suggested work flow but I started with a >>> small icon from the system-shutdown SVG source and created a new >>> system config boot icon based on the suggested metaphor... >>> http://xorengineering.com/dev/working-24.png >>> >>> If this seems like the right direction for the metaphor I'll >>> continue. >>> I'm wondering if my choice of colors for the menu is not such a good >>> idea, the dialog that comes up for system-config-boot is very basic >>> so >>> perhaps the menu next to the switch should be more basic in coloring >>> as well. >>> >>> I am having trouble locating the render-icon-theme.py script, I don't >>> see a Fedora package anywhere with the script and a google search >>> returns some references to the script but not a complete script. >> >> Hi Bryan, >> first of all, the 24px icon is totally fab and you are indeed on the right track. Minor nitpicks -- maybe a fewer menu items would be better, and while its purpose is not important, the active item arrow/triangle is completely unclear in shape (fuzzy) - you want to make sure the surface covers at least 4 pixels (3+1). And if you look around the existing icons, we're not afraid to go as far as creating square "pixels" in the vectors to make them sharp :) >> >> You can find the script in gnome-icon-theme. Either download a tarball from http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-icon-theme/2.31/ or clone the git repository* >> >> Good job! Looking forward to see more. >> >> * http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-icon-theme >> -- >> Jakub Steiner >> http://jimmac.musichall.cz >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
