[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Contact sheet for all sugar-artwork icons

[Gary Martin]

Hi Gonzalo,

On 21 Mar 2011, at 10:20, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Gary C Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> For some time I've been meaning to create a contact sheet for all sugar-artwork svg icons to help as a quick reference, and for general icon polishing/standardisation. Finally – having been fiddling with svg xml for my SOM generation code – I got around to the task:
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>        http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Sugar-artwork.png
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> Christian: Given the Design Meeting conversation on Sunday, you might be interested in 5 along, 7 down (view-source AKA the cog), and 2 along, 8 down (preferences-system AKA the spanner).
> 
> Gonzalo: You might like to check out 12 along, 9 down (camera-external) for re: your Record toolbar work as I think it gives a stronger, more sugar standard version of a camera icon than currently shown in your mockups (would need to update your video and microphone icon styles to match):
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>        http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Godiard/Record/NewToolbar
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> Thanks!
> Do you have more comments about the mockups?

Yes, I've added the topic to the design meeting agenda next week as Record is a very popular Activity. Hopefully this will also get you feedback from a slightly wider audience.

> A comment and a question about the icons: The loupe (6 along, 5 down) looks bigger than the other icons (in WIkibrowse is very visible).

I'm pretty sure this icon was never intended in the usual toolbar button placement, it is the system-search visual that appears inside search input fields so needs to be as large and clear as possible given its intended placement size. I'd flag WIkibrowse's use of it in the toolbar as incorrect. It's been a while since I downloaded the Wikipedia activity (due to it's very large size), could you post a screen shot or two (or upload them to the http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4401 page so there are some thumbnails for users to see)?

> The question: The arrows up and down with the media icon inside, are supposed to be used to transfer media or to save/load from journal? I think are better to transfer, but i saw these used to save to/load from the journal

You mean the ones starting at 11 along, 5 down? These are used for the 'send to friend -->' Journal feature for  transferring Journal objects between friends:

	http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Send-to.png

The icons appear in the top frame and provide a palette that provides the user control and transfer information:

	http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Activitiestray_transfer_to_icon.png

Can you remember where you saw them being used to save to/load from the Journal? 

Regards,
--Gary

> Regards,
> 
> Gonzalo
>  
> Regards,
> --Gary
>