[Sugar-devel] Schoolserver icon

[Gary Martin]

On 3 Jul 2010, at 03:07, Eben Eliason wrote:

> Ah, I see now. At first glance at the previous iteration I thought that it was just the stroke of a bell shape; I didn't read the bell within the arch. I do like that idea, actually, but this version does read more clearly. It looks great!
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> I'm not sure if this would be any better or not, but have you tried a solid stroke-color "cap" on the steeple? You could also widen the steeple a bit to make the bell even larger for clarity. (These are just "what if"s, though, not recommendations…it already looks great.)

I think I do like the solid steeple cap, certainly it is simpler at least. The steeple tower now seems a little fat/dumpy and un-tower like to my eye (made the steeple a little wider and the bell slightly larger, vertical space is more the limit now on bell size) – though I've likely been staring at the shapes too long now :)

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Regards,
--Gary

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> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 3 Jul 2010, at 01:42, Eben Eliason wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > Eben
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> Thanks for the feedback, good call!
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> --Gary
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> > 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:
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> > >>> 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:
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> > >>>>> 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.
> > >>
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> > > I think that one looks really good :) Would you mind sending me the svg
> > > version?
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> > 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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