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List:       kde-artists
Subject:    Re: Some concerns
From:       Torsten Rahn <rahn () astrophysik ! uni-kiel ! de>
Date:       1999-08-09 23:11:53
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Hi,

> >> Well, females are not all that crazy about the Starwars/Supergirl/Techno
> stuff.
> >The recent StarWars-movie is quite average in my opinion compared to the
> >veryfirst one. And I know a lot of females who like this
> >Starwars/Supergirl/Techno stuff. So things are not black & white.
> Plus a well designed Supergirl/SW/whatever theme appeals everyone [unless it
> doen't go into prevertism too much].

Even some lawyers out there would be appealed very much by the fact 
that they could sue us.
 
> It depends on the user solely whether he uses a wallpaper that leaves room
> for icons or not.

But we should try to develop icons that are easy to combine with most
tiles.
In most cases you have the problem that the icons disappear in front of 
the background. Thatīs why colorful icons with high contrasts often do
the 
trick ;)
 
> >- If you look at screenshots in magazines you often see that icons which
> > overdo this pastel-thing are printed quite badly -- often only a mud
> >  of pixels remains (because of lack of contrast ..). 
> Quite right. OTOH it's hard to have reasonable sized icons for both the
> screen and print. It wouldn't be wrong to have special utilities that
> prepare the icons form print [eg, rescaling them pixel by pixel] or to tell
> the folks who do the print 'how' to do it.

That is very idealistic but plain unrealistic -- people who will print 
magazines wonīt hear your advices if they do screenshots and print them. 
The only solution is that you make icons that are very easy to be
recognized
(which should be a property of every icon by definition). 
If they are easy recognizable they do their job as an icon (i.e. they
are
good icons) and are also being printed good in most cases.

> Anyway, a complete change would be good _only_ if the change would be done
> together with the coders and executed in a single major release. If icons
> change every 4 days it sure irritates the user. If the KDE 4.0 for xampl
> makes a radical change to the icons it could prove even good [headline - KDE
> introduces a new userfriendly icon technology, or something to appeal even
> more non-techies].

Yepp we should wait at least for KDE 3. We canīt afford to do a complete 
repaint for KDE2 now. We donīt have that many artists and we donīt have 
the time -- KDE2 might be out in March 2000. We needed 9 months just to 
paint the HiColor-set. And there are still other things 
to do than icons -- widget-themes and decoration are much more important
now
that we almost have a complete appealing set of icons.

Torsten

> 
> >Torsten Rahn,
> >kde-artists-team
> 
> hant,
> xype|samo korosec

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