[ARTWORK] icon: "My Computer"

[egore]

Hi list,

I drew a simple icon that COULD be used as a replacement for the current
one. I don't know if anyone of you likes it, so please tell me what you
think. Tell me if you like it, if you hate if, what could be done
better, etc.

The icon can be found in different sizes (and in a scalable format) at
http://www.egore911.de/vype/wine/

Regards,
  Christoph Brill aka egore911

[egore]

Just a note: I also added a file icon.

Am Samstag, den 12.03.2005, 23:02 +0100 schrieb egore:
> Hi list,
>
> I drew a simple icon that COULD be used as a replacement for the current
> one. I don't know if anyone of you likes it, so please tell me what you
> think. Tell me if you like it, if you hate if, what could be done
> better, etc.
>
> The icon can be found in different sizes (and in a scalable format) at
> http://www.egore911.de/vype/wine/
>
> Regards,
>   Christoph Brill aka egore911

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 11:02:54PM +0100, egore wrote:
> Tell me if you like it, if you hate if, what could be done better, etc.

-- The Desktop one is hard to distinguish at 16x16
 -- Why the wine glass on the file icon? That can be confusing.
 -- The My Computer one is a bit busy

Maybe we need special versions for the small sizes?

[Mike Hearn]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 23:02:54 +0100, egore wrote:
> I drew a simple icon that COULD be used as a replacement for the current
> one. I don't know if anyone of you likes it, so please tell me what you
> think. Tell me if you like it, if you hate if, what could be done
> better, etc.

Heya,

Typically icons have to be totally redrawn in the Gimp for 16x16 and other
small sizes according to Jimmac. Here are some tips:

- Avoid perspective, at the sizes Wine works at (32x32 and 16x16)
  perspective just doesn't work. Draw them front on.

- We don't need SVG or large sizes, because Windows doesn't use them.
  48x48 is the max necessary and I'm not sure we actually use them in
  Wine (they are an XP thing)

- I think the current file icon is OK, note that it's got a very clear
  solid outline. At small sizes the lines have been anti-aliased into grey
  which we don't want.

thanks -mike

[Christoph Brill]

Am Sonntag, den 13.03.2005, 12:20 +0000 schrieb Mike Hearn:
> On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 23:02:54 +0100, egore wrote:
> > I drew a simple icon that COULD be used as a replacement for the current
> > one. I don't know if anyone of you likes it, so please tell me what you
> > think. Tell me if you like it, if you hate if, what could be done
> > better, etc.
>
> Heya,
>
> Typically icons have to be totally redrawn in the Gimp for 16x16 and other
> small sizes according to Jimmac. Here are some tips:
> - Avoid perspective, at the sizes Wine works at (32x32 and 16x16)
> perspective just doesn't work. Draw them front on.

What about http://www.egore911.de/vype/wine/my%20computer/0.3/my%
20computer%20016x016.png I think it's still useable even used with
perpective. And what about
http://www.egore911.de/vype/wine/desktop/0.2/desktop%20016x016.png ?
It's even less perpective.
> - We don't need SVG or large sizes, because Windows doesn't use them.
> 48x48 is the max necessary and I'm not sure we actually use them in
> Wine (they are an XP thing)

Hmm, I suck at pixel based drawing. Therefore I drew them in SVG.
> - I think the current file icon is OK, note that it's got a very clear
> solid outline. At small sizes the lines have been anti-aliased into grey
> which we don't want.

I will check if I can work around anti-aliasing problems.

[Jacek Caban]

Hi.
What about icons from the attached patch? There are new icons of shell32.dll
that come from KDE XP Style, which has all icons we need! The reason why
I haven't sent it to wine-patches is that it is GPL-ed. I've sent a 
question to
the author about relicencing it and I'm waiting for the reply.  If you 
want to see
more icons, see: http://www.speleoalex.altervista.org/kde.php.

Thanks,
    Jacek

[Brian Vincent]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:32:35 +0100, Jacek Caban  wrote:
> Hi.
> What about icons from the attached patch? There are new icons of shell32.dll
> that come from KDE XP Style, which has all icons we need! The reason why
> I haven't sent it to wine-patches is that it is GPL-ed. I've sent a
> question to
> the author about relicencing it and I'm waiting for the reply.  If you
> want to see
> more icons, see: http://www.speleoalex.altervista.org/kde.php.

That theme scares me.  Reminds me of the day I first saw fvwm95
running on Solaris.

The artwork is wonderful.  Please follow up with them on it - it'd be
a nice addition.

-Brian