Another icon request

[Matthias Clasen]

Hey, here is another small icon request: As part of the 'Improved Volume
Control' feature for F12
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VolumeControlContinued ), we
would like to add a speaker setup dialog to gnome-volume-control to help
people setting up surround sound. But this currently blocks on not
having suitable icons for this.

Here is a page that describes in some detail what is needed: 
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/ArtRequests/issue22

If someone would feel inspired to tackle this, that would be awesome.


Matthias

[bm90fox]

What do you believe: Is This work appropriate to begin designing...

2009/7/28, Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com&gt;:
>  Hey, here is another small icon request: As part of the 'Improved
> Volume
>  Control' feature for F12
>  (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VolumeControlContinued ), we
>  would like to add a speaker setup dialog to gnome-volume-control to help
>  people setting up surround sound. But this currently blocks on not
>  having suitable icons for this.
>
>  Here is a page that describes in some detail what is needed:
>  http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/ArtRequests/issue22
>
>  If someone would feel inspired to tackle this, that would be awesome.
>
>
>  Matthias
>
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[Nicu Buculei]

On 07/28/2009 05:50 PM, bm90fox wrote:
>  What do you believe: Is This work appropriate to begin designing...
Manuel, do you have experience with designing icons? If not, it may be 
hard at first (for example I acknowledge I am not good at this), there 
are a loot of things to take care, from the metaphor to the style 
(strokes, palette, gradients, lighting, shadows) and technical details 
(pixel alignment, simplified versions for small size) and so.

I strongly recommend you to study the SVGs from 
/usr/share/icons/Mist/scalable/ to get a good understanding of this set 
look and feel.

Have a look at those guidelines to learn a bit: 
https://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/wiki/Guidelines - sure, they 
are for Echo, not for Mist, but will probably help with some insight.

Another wonderfur resource is jimmac's blog: 
http://jimmac.musichall.cz/log/?cat=4

...and don't get scared by what i said above, open Inkscape, give a try 
and show what you got :p

>  2009/7/28, Matthias Clasen<mclasen(a)redhat.com>:
> > Hey, here is another small icon request: As part of the 'Improved Volume
> > Control' feature for F12
> > (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VolumeControlContinued ), we
> > would like to add a speaker setup dialog to gnome-volume-control to help
> > people setting up surround sound. But this currently blocks on not
> > having suitable icons for this.
> >
> > Here is a page that describes in some detail what is needed:
> > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/ArtRequests/issue22
> >
> > If someone would feel inspired to tackle this, that would be awesome. 

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[Andreas Nilsson]

On 07/29/2009 08:15 AM, Nicu Buculei wrote:
>  On 07/28/2009 05:50 PM, bm90fox wrote:
>     
> > What do you believe: Is This work appropriate to begin designing...
> >      
>
>  I strongly recommend you to study the SVGs from
>  /usr/share/icons/Mist/scalable/ to get a good understanding of this set
>  look and feel.
>
>  Have a look at those guidelines to learn a bit:
>  https://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/wiki/Guidelines - sure, they
>  are for Echo, not for Mist, but will probably help with some insight.
>
>  Another wonderfur resource is jimmac's blog:
>  http://jimmac.musichall.cz/log/?cat=4
>
>  ...and don't get scared by what i said above, open Inkscape, give a try
>  and show what you got :p
>      
I would also recommend 
http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines
And here is a good tutorial to get started: 
http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/illustration/how-to-create-a-vector-...
- Andreas
> > 2009/7/28, Matthias Clasen<mclasen(a)redhat.com>:
> >      
> >> Hey, here is another small icon request: As part of the 'Improved Volume
> >> Control' feature for F12
> >> (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VolumeControlContinued ), we
> >> would like to add a speaker setup dialog to gnome-volume-control to help
> >> people setting up surround sound. But this currently blocks on not
> >> having suitable icons for this.
> >>
> >> Here is a page that describes in some detail what is needed:
> >> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/ArtRequests/issue22
> >>
> >> If someone would feel inspired to tackle this, that would be awesome.
> >>        
>
>

[Evangeline McGlynn]

Having email problems, so apologies if this is a duplicate:

I can take this on if no one else has started.
I'm part way through with the speaker and subwoofer icons (attached).
The SpeakerIcon_Test file is just to show what the speakers would look
like at different angles.  Obviously, these are super flat and un-styled
at the moment, but if the concept seems reasonable I can keep working
and polish them off.

Hope this helps,

eve


On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 09:53 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>  Hey, here is another small icon request: As part of the 'Improved
> Volume
>  Control' feature for F12
>  (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VolumeControlContinued ), we
>  would like to add a speaker setup dialog to gnome-volume-control to help
>  people setting up surround sound. But this currently blocks on not
>  having suitable icons for this.
>  
>  Here is a page that describes in some detail what is needed: 
>  http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/ArtRequests/issue22
>  
>  If someone would feel inspired to tackle this, that would be awesome.
>  
>  
>  Matthias
>  
>  _______________________________________________
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>  design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team

[Nicu Buculei]

On 07/31/2009 12:53 AM, Evangeline McGlynn wrote:
>  I can take this on if no one else has started. 
As far as I know, nobody else is working on this.

>  I'm part way through with the speaker and subwoofer icons
> (attached).
>  The SpeakerIcon_Test file is just to show what the speakers would look
>  like at different angles.  Obviously, these are super flat and un-styled
>  at the moment, but if the concept seems reasonable I can keep working
>  and polish them off. 
While I am not the requester, I like what you did so far, good job Eve!

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