Re: Proposal for new art for GNU PSPP

[John Darrington]

On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 09:41:30AM -0400, Hugo Alejandro wrote:
     Hi, sending an update.
     
     -Small changes in mimetypes icons.

     -Set of flat icons approximately 90% complete (I accept suggestions of
     concept to the icons of the analysis menu)

     -I've been some progress with the logo, but send results when you have
     the most consistent and at least 3 different colors.

     -Finally, my idea of the application icon is a pie chart (simple and
     representative). Reading documentation about it, high-resolution icons
     go through a 3D modeling (blender), so that I do not be so dramatic,
     but represent a good foundation.


I have had a look through all the artwork.  I am not a graphic designer, but 
here are my comments:

The files named aplication-x-spss-* are misspelled ("application" has two Ps)

The gnome guidelines recommend NOT putting the paper background for icons
unless they have something to do with a physical piece of paper.
https://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/stable/icons-types.html.en

The application-x-spss-sav and application-x-spss-por icons differ only in 
colour.  This would make it impossible for someone with colour blindness or
with a monochrome monitor to distinguish.  I suggest you make the distributions
depicted in these icons different shapes.  Simply flipping the image might be 
the 
easiest way to do this.


I don't understand why there are directories under "scalable" with a resolution 
eg
scalable/24x24 - this seems like a contradition to me.


Whilst I rather like the menu icons in hicolor/scalable/24x24 the monochrome 
look doesn't seem to
fit with the "hicolor" theme, which is the default.  Thresholding would make 
them suitable for the
high contrast theme.  With a bit of colour added I think they would be great 
for the hicolor
theme.

Some of them are duplicating icons which are already available in Gnome.  Eg: 
Help, Edit-Cut etc.
I think it is best to use the system's icons where available.  So we only need 
to do icons for
the PSPP specific stuff such as data-weight-cases, transpose-data,  
variable-nominal etc.


If these are to be distributed as part of PSPP, there is some legal mumbo-jumbo 
which has
to be dealt with.  I think it might be slightly different for artwork than with 
code.  I'm
sure Ben will have more to say about this.


I added the mimetype icons to my system, and they look really cool!


I'd like to see these in PSPP.

J'
     
     


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