Re: GNUstep Icons and look proposal

[Quentin Mathé]

Le 20 août 04, à 19:10, Banlu Kemiyatorn a écrit :

Hi Banlu,

> On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:47:13 +0100, Nicolas Roard <nicolas@roard.com> 
> wrote:
>
> > hm well... I'm not sure we want to have something as detailed...
> > and I'm not sure I have ideas about all that :)
> > Could you perhaps write something about what you'd want ?
>
> I ain't sure. But a guideline should cover at least on how thick the 
> outline
> of the icons should be, shouldn't it?

Well, I think it is the job of the icon designer, it will create a look 
which will be the basis, the example for the other icon designers which 
will create GNUstep applications related icons.

> > Why ? we plan to support them with IconKit.. (well, technically it
> > will probably use
> > an ImageRep, but the point is that will be transparent for
> > applications getting their
> > icons via the IconKit)
>
> The problem isn't about the rendering engine but the look of the icon
> that will be different. (it would be hard to make an svg that looks 
> exactly
> like a bitmap image)

I agree with you on this point and we discussed that with Nicolas; in 
my opinon we should create icons which are bitmap images, they will 
look way better than strictly vectorial images, but from a 
technological point of view it would be nice to support SVG because it 
could be useful time to time (may be for third parties icons sets) or 
in the future. For me, the SVG support is not a priority, I personally 
don't plan to include such support in the first version of the IconKit 
unless Nicolas want to do it.

Quentin.

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Quentin Mathé
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