[openbeos] Re: Tracker icons

  • From: Gustavo <daneel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:50:27 -0300

But SVG is the future and we can use Newfs Tracker ...
Also we need a better svg lib ...

Simon Taylor wrote:
Doing a full SVG thing properly would need some API changes, but I don't think simply storing a 64x64x32bit or something bitmap would require anything major changing API-wise. Using the icons would need some changes in OT, but OT is already quite different to the tracker shipped with R5. If there was a plan to update Tracker's drawing code, I don't see any reason why it can't be done before R1 of Haiku, other than developer time.

I'm still interested in any responses to the main body of my post, without this reducing to an argument about the pro and cons of SVG icon support (which I agree is not an R1 thing anyhow)

Simon


But, is not a BeOS R5 stuff ;-) maybe in R2.

2005/7/10, daneel@xxxxxxxxxxxx <daneel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

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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