Re: GNUstep Icons Effort : you can help !

[Nicolas Roard]

Le 24 oct. 04, à 00:41, M. Uli Kusterer a écrit :

> In article <mailman.4879.1098560764.2017.discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>,
>  Nicolas Roard <nicolas@roard.com> wrote:
>
> >         - not defined application icon
> >         - not defined file icon
> >         - not defined plugin icon
> >         - video file icon
> >         - image file icon
> >         - sound file icon
> >         - text file icon
> >         - home folder icon
> >         - folder icon
> >         - basic hard disk icon
> >         - cd/dvd icon
>
> Just a note: Apple used to have an "Aqua Icon Kit" on their web site,
> which basically included Photoshop files for a generic document icon, a
> generic application icon, a generic plugin icon.
>
> These weren't just the "not defined" icons, but rather they were 
> layered
> (so e.g. the document's "dog ear", the bent edge of the piece of paper
> was on its own layer, so it could throw a shadow on whatever you'd put
> on the paper.
>
> The idea behind this was to give people the opportunity to easily 
> create
> icons for their own icons that at least comply to a minimal part of the
> guidelines and don't look out of place.
>
> Since Jasper will be doing the "not defined" icons anyway, it might be 
> a
> good idea to ask him for generic icon file variants as Photoshop or 
> Gimp
> source files as well, so you can assemble a GNUstep icon kit.

Yes, that's planned, as part of the IconKit -- the IconKit can compose 
icons on the fly,
so the idea is to do that for "basic" icons; the programmer will just 
needs to provides one
icon for his program, and the icons for documents, bundles, will be 
automatically created.
The idea is, if you change your icons (use another icon theme..), icons 
will stay coherent.
Of course the programmer can choose to provides its own icons..

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Nicolas Roard
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