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

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at googlemail.com>wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >        http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Sugar-artwork.png
> >
> > 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):
> >
> >        http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Godiard/Record/NewToolbar
> >
> > 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.
>

Ok.


>
> > 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)?
>
>
I have attached a image with the toolbar of wikipedia. May be I must use
another icon?


> > 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?
>
>
Yes, in TurtleArt.

Regards,

Gonzalo
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