Re: animated backgrounds

You want real desktop animation crack? Here is what I want. I want to
do a desktop version of the Museum of the North's "The Place Where You
Go to Listen"

http://www.uaf.edu/museum/exhibit/index.html
"The Place Where You Go to Listen is a unique sound and light
environment created by composer John Luther Adams. This ever-changing
musical ecosystem gives voice to the rhythms of daylight and darkness,
the phases of the moon, the seismic vibrations of the earth and the
dance of the aurora borealis, in real time."

All the data that art installation uses is available publicly through
the Geophysical Institute's real time monitering system via the web. I
want to see something similar for the desktop except do this without
sound... do it only with animated svg desktop elements!

-jef"I wonder if there is NSF funding for this. Abstract visualization
of scientific data into a artist forms as science education
outreach"spaleta

Re: Icon howto?

Hey, thanks for the reply :D

> Some answers to your questions:
>
> file formats - png for most icons, svg for scalable icons
>
> sizes - 16x16, 22x22, 24x24, 32x32, 48x48, the bigger you will probably
> not need

I figure producing them as svg means I can just export to whatever
size I want? Only thing is, when I've exported icons I've already
created, or simply viewed them as svg (thumbnail previews) they
haven't looked as sharp as when I've produced them, instead looking
slightly blurred. Is there any reason why this is? (using inkscape)
>
> names -
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html
> and icon-naming-utils package, also there is a usefull utility analyzing
> the current coverage (you have to have inherited icon theme though, to
> make use of this) [1]

awesome thanks :D
>
> index.theme -
>
http://git.fedoraproject.org/?p=hosted/echo-icon-theme;a=blob_plain;f=trunk/Echo/index.theme;hb=HEAD
(example) and http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
>

I'll have to check these out....for now I'm just substituting my icons

Re: Icon howto?

Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> Hey, thanks for the reply :D
> 
>> Some answers to your questions:
>>
>> file formats - png for most icons, svg for scalable icons
>>
>> sizes - 16x16, 22x22, 24x24, 32x32, 48x48, the bigger you will probably
>> not need
> 
> I figure producing them as svg means I can just export to whatever
> size I want? Only thing is, when I've exported icons I've already
> created, or simply viewed them as svg (thumbnail previews) they
> haven't looked as sharp as when I've produced them, instead looking
> slightly blurred. Is there any reason why this is? (using inkscape)

Yes. You need to align them to the pixel grid. You can't simply draw it 
once and export it to whatever sizes... you have to align the artwork to 
the pixel grid for every size. Some references:

http://www.firewheeldesign.com/sparkplug/2006/April/icon_design_bitmap_vs_vector.php

http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2007/07/11/icon_design/

http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Creating_Icons/

~m

Re: Icon howto?

On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 15:53 +0200, Máirí­n Duffy wrote:
> Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> > Hey, thanks for the reply :D
> > 
> >> Some answers to your questions:
> >>
> >> file formats - png for most icons, svg for scalable icons
> >>
> >> sizes - 16x16, 22x22, 24x24, 32x32, 48x48, the bigger you will probably
> >> not need
> > 
> > I figure producing them as svg means I can just export to whatever
> > size I want? Only thing is, when I've exported icons I've already
> > created, or simply viewed them as svg (thumbnail previews) they
> > haven't looked as sharp as when I've produced them, instead looking
> > slightly blurred. Is there any reason why this is? (using inkscape)
> 
> Yes. You need to align them to the pixel grid. You can't simply draw it 
> once and export it to whatever sizes... you have to align the artwork to 
> the pixel grid for every size. Some references:
> 
> http://www.firewheeldesign.com/sparkplug/2006/April/icon_design_bitmap_vs_vector.php
> 
> http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2007/07/11/icon_design/
> 
> http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Creating_Icons/
> 
> ~m
> 

Re: Icon howto?

> > Yes. You need to align them to the pixel grid. You can't simply draw it
> > once and export it to whatever sizes... you have to align the artwork to
> > the pixel grid for every size. Some references:
> >
> > http://www.firewheeldesign.com/sparkplug/2006/April/icon_design_bitmap_vs_vector.php
> >
> > http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2007/07/11/icon_design/
> >
> > http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Creating_Icons/
> >
> > ~m
> >
>
> And I would add that really helpfull thing is to open a preview in
> inkscape: View->Icon Preview... It provides 1:1 look at 96x96, 48x48,
> 32x32, 24x24 and 16x16 icons and you can have it open and edit in
> inkscape in the meantime. Just push Refresh anytime you'd like to check
> how it is aligned :)

Woah! I've just gained a massive amount more respect for all the work
that icon developers have to do!!

Thanks for the advice both of you - playing with it now and it has
made it looked a lot better, at least imho :D

Jon

First batch of Category Echo icons complete

Hi,

I've just finished a first batch of Category icons for the Echo icon
set. All the icons that go to the Applications menu are therefore
(hopefully) complete, with all sizes included. You can look at them at
my fedorapeople page [1]. Comments welcome. If no objections arise, I
will upload them next weekend to the echo-icon-theme git repository.

Thanks,
Martin

References:
[1] http://mso.fedorapeople.org/echo/

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Re: First batch of Category Echo icons complete

They are all looking nice!
good job.

i hope your gonna do more of them.

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Re: Icon feedback WAS Icon howto?

Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> 
> I've created some icons in the style that I had in mind, so in case
> any body has any interest in seeing what I've done I've uploaded them
> to Flickr:
> 
> http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1086/1288722576_adf5e6330e_o.png
> 
> Only got it working on Pidgin right now, and obviously there aren't
> very many there, but feedback would be welcome :D

I think people would get a better idea about them from a screenshot of a 
real desktop using the icons. (I expect they will not loot that great on 
*my* desktop, with a very dark background and a partly transparent panel).

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