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

[Christian Marc Schmidt]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:22 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Christian Marc Schmidt
> <christianmarc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is great Gary, thanks so much! Most of the icons are already very
> good
> > and quite consistent. And there are a few we could definitely improve.
> > I see we already have both a wrench and a cog. But the more I think about
> > it, it seems that preferences could be a form with checkboxes, or even a
> > pencil making a checkmark. Seems that the message we want to communicate
> is
> > "having a choice", more than the "inner workings" implied by the
> cog/gear.
> > What do you think?
>
> In my applications at least, there is more than just choosing
> involved. Users make their own versions of things, with parameters and
> graphics of their own making; and in the case of Turtle Art, they can
> reprogram the blocks. I am leaning towards the spanner (wrench).
>

That makes sense. I can get behind the wrench. :) How is it being used
currently (if at all)?

Christian


>
> -walter
>
> >
> > Christian
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>
> 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?
> >> 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). 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
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Gonzalo
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> --Gary
> >
> >
> >
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