[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kde-artists
Subject:    Re: [kde-artists] Bug 163311
From:       pinheiro <nuno () oxygen-icons ! org>
Date:       2008-07-07 8:39:25
Message-ID: 200807071040.22180.nuno () oxygen-icons ! org
[Download RAW message or body]

A Monday 07 July 2008 04:21:10, James Richard Tyrer escreveu:
> Kenneth Wimer wrote:
> > Neutral, un-themed, generic, no-style etc. do not exist...it is a myth
> > and anyone who has done real artwork would know that. I am sorry to put
> > it that way and mean no harm or bad feelings but the truth is the truth.
>
> I think that we are having a semantics problem.  While it is true that
>   the Gnome, Tango, and KDEClassic themes are totally neutral,
> un-themed, generic, no-style, and etc. (what ever) -- they have to have
> some style

> otherwise they would look identical, it is also true that 
> some other icon themes have a much stronger thematic aspect than these.
> I suppose that even the icons I made with the intention of their being
> totally unthemed have some theme aspects [see attached 1, 2, & 3].  In
> this case, I did choose a color for the shading to match KDEClassic.
> But, is that a theme?

> Just to remind you, my concern about icon style is not one of taste but
> rather of usability.  This was a large issue with CrystalSVG.  It is
> much less of an issue with most Oxygen icons except that some of them
> seem to have some of the same problems (e.g. lack of tonal range, high
> average brightness).
>
> I suppose that even the icons I made after that which do not include
> shading to match KDEClassic still have some style [see attached 4, 5, & 6]
>
> IAC, the point which the spec should probably make is that icons in
> HiColor should be *more* neutral.  Which would be more correct if there
> is no 100% neutral.
>
> I also note that I consider some of the other points in the posing much
> more important than the fine distinction between very little (less)
> style and no style.

JAmes apart from you, I see no one else demnding for this theme, this hi-color 
theme, Hey I would even help in such a theme if it was beter quality. And I 
meen art quality, this one woud make us look like the desktop from the 80's.  


-- 

core oxygen icon designer
______________________________________________________________________________
kde-artists@kde.org |  https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-artists
[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]