[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] icon for search in wikipedia activity

[Gary Martin]

Hi Manuel,

On 25 Jul 2011, at 06:16, manuel quiñones wrote:

> Thanks for all the feedback,  I think I came to a better icon, what do
> you think?
> 
> Screenshot:
> 
> http://dev.laptop.org/~manuq/wikipedia_design/wikipedia_search_icon_2.png

Looks good.

> 
> Icon:
> 
> http://dev.laptop.org/~manuq/wikipedia_design/search4.svg

Before you make a commit with icons in don't forget to clean out the unnecessary junk xml that inkscape fills its svg save files with, and also to set up the entity fill and stroke variables (see attached).

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Regards,
--Gary

> El día 15 de julio de 2011 13:08, Gary Martin
> <garycmartin at googlemail.com> escribió:
>> On 15 Jul 2011, at 14:22, manuel quiñones <manuel.por.aca at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> This is for sugarlabs ticket #2971 [1] with the following summary and
>>> description:
>>> 
>>> [1] http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2971
>>> 
>>> """
>>> Wikipedia: Loupe icon is not of the right size
>>> 
>>> The Loupe icon is designed to be inside the search entry. We are using
>>> it in the toolbar but looks bad. We need a different icon for the
>>> toolbar.
>>> 
>>> """
>>> 
>>> Here are two variants I did:
>>> 
>>> http://dev.laptop.org/~manuq/wikipedia_design/wikipedia_search_icon.png
>>> 
>>> 1. current search icon
>>> 2. search icon based on the zoom icons
>>> 3. custom icon with the magnifying glasses over a book
>>> 
>>> Comments and critics welcome.
>> 
>> If we go for something like 2. I think the magnifying glass could be just a little larger; as for 3. it can work as well but the magnifying glass needs to be a little stronger (perhaps slightly larger and/or thicker stroke and/or moved a little up). Thanks for making the variants, I can take it off my todo list :)
>> 
>> Regards,
>> --Gary
>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
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