[Sugar-devel] Schoolserver icon

[Eben Eliason]

The door and the bell could both be solid stroke-colored fills. That would
give it a simpler overall shape and likely allow the bell to be more legible
at the size.

Eben


On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Hi  Martin,
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> On 2 Jul 2010, at 19:10, Martin Abente wrote:
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> > On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:53:59 +0100, Gary Martin
> > <garycmartin at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> On 29 Jun 2010, at 15:39, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> El Mon, 28-06-2010 a las 21:36 +0100, Gary Martin escribió:
> >>>>
> >>>>> A joke right? Something I missed from the early days?
> >>>>
> >>>> No joke! Sugar Labs is actually a masonic lodge. Oops, now I'll have
> > to
> >>>> kill you.
> >>>
> >>> *I actually got questions about masonic influence on our UI design.*
> >>> Not kidding...
> >>>
> >>> Anyway - there's a nice school at the 1 minute mark in this video -
> >>> http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ft2t_olpc-mission-video-part-1_tech
> >>
> >> Thanks for the pointer, yea that works, a little like the top right
> > 'with
> >> bell' attempt on my last sheet. I worried that one would be seen as too
> >> church like.
> >>
> >
> > I think that one looks really good :) Would you mind sending me the svg
> > version?
>
> Sure. I've attached a SVG that is a (close) reproduction of the school with
> bell tower as shown in the OLPC promotional video (and similar to the top
> right icon from my previous email set). The one major change was to make
> proper use of fill and stroke colour, not just a single fill silhouette. The
> school-server icon needs to show colour identity in the neighbourhood, just
> like other objects.
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> Martin (Langhoff): Can you confirm the server does pass some unique
> identity that could be used to set the icon fill and stroke identity
> colours? Sorry I don't know enough about the registration/ident. server
> process.
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> Here's what it looks like in different colours at a small (close to
> neighbourhood view), and a larger size:
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> Shout if you want changes/tweaks. Hope it's of use.
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> Regards,
> --Gary
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> >> Regards,
> >> --Gary
> >>
> >>> m
> >>> --
> >>> martin.langhoff at gmail.com
> >>> martin at laptop.org -- School Server Architect
> >>> - ask interesting questions
> >>> - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
> >>> - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff
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