[Zope3-dev] Re: DISCUSS: Icons in Zope 3

[kit blake]

Hi everybody,
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> >Secondly I don't have a high resolution copy of your
> >services.gif. and would need it.

Jan, I can send that to you. It's a vector file in Illustrator.
In fact I can send all that I have (sorry I thought you had it
already, I sent some other people a zip file a couple months back)
Aha, found it, I'll send it separately.

Re: http://www.ozzope.org/Zope3Graphics.htm
Some of the icons on that page don't have vectors, I just cut and
pasted things in Photoshop. Others are vector, but are not direct 
conversions. The colors were tweaked in Photoshop. I should warn
you, these were done fast, and were just meant to be placeholders,
until somebody really thought it through. Guess that's you ;)

> >. what file formats would you like to receive graphics in and where should
> >they be sent?
> 
> Don't know if there is a decision
> 
> But I'd like to avoid gif and jpeg license problems
> 
> so I'd like png
 
PNG has 'alpha blending' which makes subtle transparencies 
possible (originally a request from Steve Alexander)

> >. if it was thought desirable would there be any problems adapting some of
> >Plones icons or Silva's icons.  It may be a good thing to start having a
> >predictable Zope look.
> 
> In both case, you need to find out about :
> -license questions
> -people agreement
> 
> Kit, can you answer for Silva ?
 
Silva icons are open source too, and Jan is up to speed about
the concepts behind them, so no problem. 

> >. I've looked at the KDE and gnome icons and most of them are much much
> >larger than 16x16 pixels. My personal preference, being well over 40, is 
> >for
> >icons bigger than 16 x 16 pixels but I am happy to conform.

Someday, icons will be SVG graphics, which scale flawlessly
with text (probably after Zope3 is released ;). It's a good 
idea to work in vectors to start with.

> >. should there be an effort to look at an overall style for the icons
> >without becoming over zealous about the effectiveness of this.  A theme can
> >enrich the product.  I think Silva's forest theme adds a subtle depth to
> >Silva.
> 
> Please propose. Still I am afraid it is easier for Silva to have a coherent 
> theme than for Zope as Zope is supposed to have a much broader scope 
> application server (opposed to Silva seen as content management application)
 
This is true, however we should still try. A coherent theme
makes many decisions for you, and simplifies work later, as
more icons are added by various people. 
kit


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