[Bf-taskforce25] icons for 2.5 BF

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi Andrzej,

To my surprise I noticed a completely evolved set of icons get 
submitted. :)
This is what I thought you were working on:

http://img456.imageshack.us/img456/4230/siconsetrb0.png
A very nice lean and clean set, without over-use of color.

The one that got in svn evolved almost into a tango set, too much 
detail and color imho...

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute BV  Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands

On 3 Dec, 2008, at 18:39, Ton Roosendaal wrote:

> Hi,
>
>>> The lowest level - and quite limited - set should be treatable like
>>> text; meaning only an alpha plane (or B&W) which allows our Theme
>>> drawing code to draw them black or white, or colored. This will be 
>>> for
>>> arrows, dots, and all kinds of mostly button-level decorations or
>>> small
>>> WM widgets. Also think of slider handles, rounded corners, etc.
>>> Optionally you can draw them even with (soft)drop shadows or 
>>> embossed.
>>
>> Do You think about such so far gone customisation? Are You really sure
>> that
>> there's need for it?
>> Matt suggested once that this level of GUI could be hardcoded and
>> drawn by
>> OGL.
>
> OpenGL really sux for nice crispy icons, certainly compared to text.
> I'm also talking about the "V" sign on buttons (to denote option is
> active), and so on. We should check how many are needed... is probably
> only a few.
>
>> My first though was: it will be good for reducing icon number, but
>> personally don't find Automatically-Colour-An-Icon-By-Context 
>> technique
>> really useful.
>> First of all colour is just one layer of info and I don't think that
>> there
>> will be many icons that would change only their colour with different
>> context.
>> It could work for selected/active state, but in my opinion it's way
>> economic to make proper design of a big set of icons with custom
>> colour for
>> every item, than making sophisticated automatic system that will 
>> colour
>> just a few pictures.
>
> Maybe, but that makes color (and meaning of color) not themable. We
> definitely won't need a lot of those colors, the fewer the better! But
> if we can define such meaning without bothering the icon-designer, it's
> more efficient. :)
> We can keep this open until there's a design for this topic though.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Ton-
>
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