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Subject:    K-ARTIST:Cooperation (was: IKons, Slick, crystal, Anti-Icons, ...)
From:       Torsten Rahn <tackat () suse ! de>
Date:       2002-01-19 2:34:37
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Recently a lot of iconthemes appeared on kde-look.org which can be used as 
alternatives to the default-theme "hicolor": IKons, Slick, Anti-Icons, etc.

While there is already quite some "cross-pollution" going on between these 
iconthemes (in terms of ideas and pixmaps) I think that this 
"cross-pollution" could even improve more.

One way to improve it might be that people would work together in KDE-CVS. 
This would mean that people would put their psd/xcf-files there and / or 
their complete iconthemes.

I just offered Rob Cosgrove (aka "Amibug") to continue maintainance of his 
"Slick"-icontheme in CVS today. I hope that other people will follow :-)

People who start to maintain their icon-themes in CVS would probably soon 
start to work on other KDE artwork as well -- especially on the 
default-icontheme. There are some areas where "hicolor" needs a lot of help 
badly: Many of the Application-icons haven't improved for months/years. 
One of the reasons is that personally I like mimetype/filetype-icons best. 
Therefore I spend most of my time on those. On the other hand there are other 
artists (like Kristof e.g.) who like Device/Application-icons a lot. I hope 
that some artists who will start to work in CVS will also start to feel 
responsible for this rather orphaned artwork in KDE.

Of course there are some issues that we need to decide: The most difficult 
thing will be to establish a consistent style. Of course the whole KDE 
artwork should always look as if it was done by one great artist (just like 
it's the case with Walt Disney movies "Weren't they entirely being created by 
Walt Disney himself ;-) ?").
Therefore one has got to decide for one single style. This style should look 
_neutral_ enough to go with any theme/style/colorscheme (Everaldos 
crystal-icons are too blue e.g. - they wouldn't go well with quite some 
colorschemes).
Also we would have to make sure that it would still look well and a bit 
consistent together with the current icon-style. People should still be able 
to recognize this artwork as KDE-related.

Another thing that pops up frequently is that photographic vs. cartoonish - 
style discussion.
Mac OS X icons e.g. are very much photographic while KDE/Windows-icons are 
rather cartoonish/symbolic. While "photographic" looks certainly more cool it 
is not as good as "cartoonish/symbolic" usability-wise.
In my wildest dreams ;-) we would have two iconthemes in kdelibs: One rather 
photographic and one  rather symbolic icontheme. And people could choose 
whatever they like best.
As long as we stay with only one icontheme in kdelibs the icons should of 
course stay very good in therms of usability. Therefore a good compromise 
between symbolic and photographic is the right way to go.
I think that mimetype-icons are quite good as they are right now while the 
application-icons could look quite a bit more photorealistic for several 
reasons.

Greetings,
Tackat



 
 

  





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