FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Tracker icons

["Simon Taylor" <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doing a full SVG thing properly would need some API changes, but I 
don't think simply storing a 64x64x32bit or something bitmap would 
require anything major changing API-wise. Using the icons would need 
some changes in OT, but OT is already quite different to the tracker 
shipped with R5. If there was a plan to update Tracker's drawing code, 
I don't see any reason why it can't be done before R1 of Haiku, other 
than developer time.

I'm still interested in any responses to the main body of my post, 
without this reducing to an argument about the pro and cons of SVG icon 
support (which I agree is not an R1 thing anyhow)

Simon

> But, is not a BeOS R5 stuff ;-) maybe in R2.
> 
> 2005/7/10, daneel@xxxxxxxxxxxx <daneel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > 
> > And what about SVG icons ? They are better i think ...
> > 
> > > Talking of CDT stuff, there's some other threads in the CDT 
> > > forums
> > > talking about icons.
> > >
> > > Michael said recently:
> > > > I am not really sure that I want a "team"
> > > > for this, though, as much as I would like *1* person who is a
> > > > qualified Graphic
> > > > Artist. Someone who either is making a living today as an 
> > > > artist or
> > > > has
> > > > significant university experience. If some such person is
> > > > listening,
> > > > please get
> > > > in touch with me. :-)
> > >
> > > There seems to be a bit of confusion as to what the "this" is. My
> > > understanding is that Haiku R1 will have a completely new icon 
> > > set,
> > > can
> > > someone confirm/deny that this is the intention?
> > >
> > > OT is limited in the icons it can display - 32x32x256 being the
> > > biggest
> > > possible. Of course there are lots of concerns about binary
> > > compatibility, but couldn't we retain the normal icons and just 
> > > add a
> > > H_HUGE_ICON or something to go with the other icon_size constants
> > > (B_MINI_ICON, B_LARGE_ICON) for GetTrackerIcon?
> > >
> > > I expect none of the team will want to change OT much before R1 
> > > is
> > > out,
> > > and PoseView is pretty horrible, but if there is a plan for
> > > supporting
> > > higher quality icons in Tracker that someone (Axel) could 
> > > explain, it
> > > might be something I would be interested in looking at. Move it 
> > > off-
> > > list or to the OT list if you want.
> > >
> > > If it is going to be necessary to create a new icon set, I think 
> > > it
> > > would be nice if we could lift some of the constraints (the 256 
> > > color
> > > one especially) from the designers which would force even the new
> > > icons
> > > to look somewhat dated.
> > >
> > >
> > > Simon
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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