This has probably already been discussed at length so apologies in
advance
if it has, but I have the following questions regarding the Haiku
iconset:
1. Why not just keep them the same as BeOS R5?
2. Why not just convert them to PNG (so the dropshadow effect can be
alpha-blended)?
3. Why not just add extra sizes (48x48, 96x96, etc.)?
4. Is there some copyright issue preventing doing this?
5. Why not offer the top 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 24, whatever icon sets as
alternatives the user can select?
I'm guessing the key answer to all this is a drive to make Haiku
different
from BeOS R5, although this seems a bit at odds with the driving
statement
that Haiku R1 will be highly (if not completely binary) compatible
with BeOS
R5? If, of course, there's a copyright issue then this makes more
sense.
Just idle curiosity really...
Chris
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Okay, let's share my opinion too.
I like more perspective icons sets than flat ones, Tango included,
as the
isometric icons are/was a very distinctive visual difference
between BeOS
icons and others OSes icons. No wonder why many were/are still
stolen to
enhance some web sites.
Among perspective icons in this contest, only the one with not-too
discret
drop shadows make sense to me. BTW, zuMi's people icon head don't
cast any
shadow, what's the hell is that!? ;-)
Dark borders is a must have to allow good visibility on any background
image. Non-strong bordered icons will look good only on some
uniform color
background, and only lighter colors.
The tool for preferences icons is way better than a checkmark, as
most often
these tools offer a way to setup and tune than just
enabling/disabling/checking, the meaning of checkmarks in my mind. The
overlay should be very distintive and in the same isometric shadow-
casting
perspective as the rest of the set, which is not the case in
Stippi's Screen
preflet icon BTW.
Last but not least regarding preflet standard overlay, it should be
keep
very visually distintive as under BeOS. Maybe a gray color is not eyes
catcher enough for that. A tool with a colorful handle like a red-
handle
screwer (red to keep some link with old BeOS red checkmark) will be
better?
The Honey icons set looks great at 64x64 but seems to require a lot
more
rendering time and lost pretty much all its details at 16x16.
The lego head is most probably copyrighted.
Any textual label should be drop in 16x16 size.
At last, I disagree about the needs to insert Haiku logo's colors
into the
generic executable blocks colors. The current colors are more
lego-colored-blocks-like-components inspired to me than first Be
logo two
colors + yellow color... But we definitly needs a better icon for
AboutHaiku
app, though ;-)
- Philippe