[openbeos] Re: Tracker icons
- From: "" <daneel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:50:50 -0700 PDT
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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