[Design-team] Proposed Icon for Ticket #99

[Nicu Buculei]

On 10/04/2010 05:52 PM, Bryan Nielsen wrote:
> I had not rendered the icon in the various sizes yet. I need a bit of
> guidance on the various steps I should be taking to make sure icons
> have the appropriate appearance and are rendered properly for
> packaging.

Martin or Jimmac are probably the best persons to teach about this.

> Here are some renderings of the new icon...
> http://xorengineering.com/dev/system-config-boot-22.png
> http://xorengineering.com/dev/system-config-boot-24.png
> http://xorengineering.com/dev/system-config-boot-48.png
>
> I used some source SVG files from the gnome themes for the computer
> screen behind the arrows and I chose the largest screen in the source
> file to work with. There were several smaller screens in the same
> source file and I'm wondering if I should have used one of the smaller
> screens to get a better rendering for a small icon.

The biggest problem is blurry icons, at such small sizes if the drawing 
is not aligned to pixels, then the result is blurry, have a look at 
https://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/wiki/Guidelines/CommonMistakes 
(is a different icon set but the principles are the same)

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