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List:       kde-artists
Subject:    Re: K-ARTIST: JAVA MIME type icon for CrystalSVG SVG
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2004-09-22 23:18:13
Message-ID: 41520835.20400 () acm ! org
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Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 12:50:17PM -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 
>>Is this OK?
>>
>>There is the question of what to name it.
>>
>>This name is sufficient (with the "_" on the end) to indicate that it is a 
>>MIME type for more than one file extension.
>>
>>But, there is the question of the XDG standards for MIME type icons.
> 
> 
> There is already an icon for Java.

Perhaps we need to get better organized.  There is a bug requesting an icon.

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72858

Yes, there is an icon named: "source_java".

Perhaps the problem is the name.  Does it apply to other types of Java files 
such as JARs? or only to source code.

Or perhaps it is because the light color cup on the light gray background is 
useless in small sizes.

I would have to be objective and say that the new Sun Java logo isn't very good 
at low resolutions (small sizes) either -- it is only slightly better.  When the 
icon I made is displayed at 32x32 (logo is 24x24) it isn't very good (I would 
rate it as acceptable -- not as good), but you can recognize it by color.

It is also mitigated by the fact that this is the Sun logo for Java (people 
should have seen it before so it would be easier to recognize).

I wouldn't recommend that we use Sun's English pun and put a jar on the icon for 
a JAR file.

Note if we need a better copy of the Sun Java logo, I can try again and try to 
optimize what AutoTrace did, or do the cup by hand.

--
JRT

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