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Subject:    Re: [kde-artists] OpenDocument MIME icons
From:       jos poortvliet <jos () mijnkamer ! nl>
Date:       2007-05-18 9:36:13
Message-ID: 200705181136.17475.jos () mijnkamer ! nl
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Op Friday 18 May 2007, schreef James Richard Tyrer:
> David Vignoni wrote:
> <SNIP>

<SNIP more>

> Yes, I understand that you want something other than just grey lines in
> the larger sized.  But that does not mean that the low contrast is
> acceptable.

So your point is that the current Oxygen icons look fuzzy at smaller sizes, 
mostly because they've not been designed with smaller sizes and pixel 
boundaries in mind.

> > Getting sick of this discussion which is pointless, since we already
> > told the world we care about small resolutions.
>
> Nice that you care.  I will work on this icon to illustrate some of the
> points that I have made in the past.
>
> It isn't enough to care about small sizes, you need to lay the SVG icons
> out on a 128x128 pixel grid just the same as if you were making a PNG,
> You have not done that.  All major details should be on 8 pixel
> boundaries if possible and always on 4 pixel boundaries.  If you make
> the icons this way, they will render better in smaller sizes and it will
> be easier to hand optimize them for small sizes.  In general, even
> though you are using SVG, you should design the icons based not on how
> they look in InkScape, but rather on how they will render as PNGs in
> 48x48 and 32x32.

I don't know much about desigining icons etc, but this sounds reasonable. I 
wonder, though, does this work when the interfaces are scalable? I guess not, 
right?

Could you probably make two icons, eg one designed with, and one designed 
without these pixel boundaries? preferably a modified oxygen icon or 
something, so we can clearly see what you mean?

grtz

Jos


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Disclaimer:

Alles wat ik doe denk en zeg is gebaseerd op het wereldbeeld wat ik nu heb. 
Ik ben niet verantwoordelijk voor wijzigingen van de wereld, of het beeld wat 
ik daarvan heb, noch voor de daaruit voortvloeiende gedragingen van mezelf. 
Alles wat ik zeg is aardig bedoeld, tenzij expliciet vermeld.

Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

   A: Because it destroys the flow of the conversation
   Q: Why is top-posting bad?

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