[openbeos] Tracker icons
- From: "Simon Taylor" <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 11:04:02 GMT
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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