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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Icon experiment.
From:       Sean Pecor <sean () digitalspinner ! com>
Date:       2001-03-09 2:13:14
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Greetings all,

I want to illustrate some possibilities for action icons, and what better way 
to do so than to create a KDE 2 theme. So I began work this evening and this 
is what I came up with so far:

http://extranet.digitalspinner.com/theme.png

I'm still going through an iterative process with the color scheme, but it's 
a start. Mostly I'd ask you to take notice of the copy and paste icons. 
Clearly not perfect but they do "communicate" to me (poke poke) what they're 
going to accomplish :-).

My goal is to devise an icon theme for all KDE 2 actions that make use of 
just one color gradient per icon with subtle black and white tones for 
contrast. Ideally, the color would complement a distinct shape while the 
contrast would serve to add depth when it is needed. 

The single color gradients, with black and white tones for contrast is 
coupled with a "disabled" icon effect. The effect I use is colorize with 
white at 100%, which results in a really smooth emboss effect which retains 
the smooth shape of the icon and removes the black contrasts entirely. This 
is really noticeable with the red X stop icon, which really "pops" when it 
becomes enabled.

I like it anyway, :). This is fun. Sort of like customizing my 944 :). 

Sean.

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