FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Icon Artwork

[Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

> >> The only possible downside is that it would force a particular
> > > look for toolbar buttons -- I don't know if that is a good thing or
> > > not. Thoughts, anyone else?
> > 
> > Why should that be a bad thing? I like a consistent look, and I prefer
> > it over any mess out there.
> 
> Me too. It's very annoying using a windows app where someone has redesigned 
> the save, new, etc icons and they're almost unrecognisable without a 
> tooltip. A good set of standard icons that fit with the mood of the rest of 
> the icon set would be great, and would certainly help out any app 
> developers with no artistic skills :)

I'm also all for it.

> Maybe one of the preview icons could also be in 8 bit (first boot without a 
> supported video card should not look too horrible :)) - stippi, maybe the 
> renderer could again be intelligent about this (avoiding attempting to 
> render slight gradients or something?)

Possible is anything... so much to do, sigh. Before cluttering the slick 
IconRenderer, I should probably add native support for 8 bit mode to the 
app_server. :-) Then again, I could leave this to some developer with 
unsupported graphics driver. And yet again, I would rather have that guy code 
a driver for his card.... it's all so confusing.

> I love the LOD filter as shown in the stippi's display preferences 
> icon...very cool.

Cool, someone noticed! Some of the other icons have this as well, like the 
missing strings in the archive icon, and the text icon has only every other 
line of text at 16x16. :-)
In fact, you could have completely different icons for different sizes, 
though Icon-O-Matic doesn't make this easy for you right now (one can 
currently not pick the scale of the editor icon display).

Best regards,
-Stephan