Re: Icons

tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

In recent days, I've had a chance to acually use some of the icons I posted a 
week or so back, and cofirmed my initial impression that some of them really 
suck. So I updated 6 or 8, and reposted. Some lightening, recoloring, some 
re-shaping, edge-hardening ...



Hey Tom its good to hear from you.Been so busy lately that I haven't had time to post anything to the list until now.

Don't be so hard on yourself.They wheren't that bad. :)
Its all trial and error.I usually start with something so ugly that I wouldn't recommend it to my worst enemy and gradually build it up to something that looks.....well...worth looking at. :)



... The only problem I see is that they
aren't using gtk2 colors but that can be changed.



I know that gnome encourages a particular pallette, but gtk ??

Yep.Like I said in an earlier email,the guy that made the gnome icons also made the genric gtk2 series.He used the exact same pallete for both.Actually,a lot of the icons are the same.Simply put,its just a standard.The problem is that the (what I call) realistic look is a bit of a pain to recreate whereas kde goes with a much simpler cartoonish look.No offense meant at all.I like most of the default kde icons.


I've tried to work with combinations of moderately 'reserved' reds, blues 
and greens.

Would you mind if I


start playing with them a bit?


Go for it. I particularly still dislike the misture of hard- and blurred-edges.

If you haven't been following the


discussion over at the emelfm2 mailing list there where a few links I
sent tooar about gnome icons standards.

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/layout.html
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/icons.html

The guy that wrote those also makes the stock gtk icons and sticks to the standards which is what tooar wants.


That's doesn't sound like tooar, to me !!  But that's for another discussion ...

The reason for this is so

Please don't misuderstand because I'm not trying to be a jerk. :)
The first "rename icon" I made for him looked a bit too gnomish.I asked him to be honest and basically what he said was he wanted the new icons to fit into the default gtk scheme as best as possible.A few odd out of place icons and things can start to look a bit screwy.Just open up any app using the fox library and you'll see what I mean.Fox uses old win95 icons which do not fit in to any modern linux desktop.Heck it won't even fit in on winxp.Sure those icons where considered nice at one time but that ancient history.



emelfm2 will blend in better.Personally I don't really like the gnome/gtk look.The green arrows suck imo. :)
I was actually thinking of creating an icons set to my liking.Take a look at the attachment.



A bit too bright, for my taste.

If you scale it down it wouldn't be too bright at all. :) I just kind of like the gel look over aqua or flat boring icons but each to his or her own right?

Whatever you end up with, I recommend you try to provide a 'theme' across 
groups 'copy/move/link' and 'copyas/moveas/linkas'

Oh yeah! A theme is the only way to go.If I ever get around to it the theme in question would be a gtk theme and not just for emelfm2.




I'll download your latest set of icons and have a look at the changes you've made.



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