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

[Gary Martin]

Hi Walter,

On 21 Mar 2011, at 15:50, Walter Bender wrote:

> I have some skew, but I made a first pass at using image map to let
> you see the icon name by placing the cursor over it...

Oooh, sorry, I should have said the svg I'm playing with has hover over names (and I was planning on adding markers for device, emblems, etc), just that I've not uploaded the svg yet (it links to the files in git.sl.org so wanted a quick standalone png first as a static point in time). I'm also re-looking at the emblem icons as I have a git merge request still outstanding from last year (makes them high contrast instead of the current grey scale), but just looking again incase there's more tweaks – part of the reason for making this contact sheet. There was one new badge icon (emblem-buddy) so I didn't post the svg yet as it's not in mainline.

Regards,
--Gary

> See http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Walter#Sugar_icons
> 
> -walter
> 
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:36 AM, 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.
>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
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