[Design-team] Proposed Icon for Ticket #99

[Jakub Steiner]

----- "Bryan Nielsen" <bnielsen1965 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lots of good information, making good looking icons that are small is
> quite the chore. :) I'm not sure how good I will be at touching up
> the
> small raster images after rendering but I'll give it a shot.
> 
> This is a bit out of the suggested work flow but I started with a
> small icon from the system-shutdown SVG source and created a new
> system config boot icon based on the suggested metaphor...
> http://xorengineering.com/dev/working-24.png
> 
> If this seems like the right direction for the metaphor I'll
> continue.
> I'm wondering if my choice of colors for the menu is not such a good
> idea, the dialog that comes up for system-config-boot is very basic
> so
> perhaps the menu next to the switch should be more basic in coloring
> as well.
> 
> I am having trouble locating the render-icon-theme.py script, I don't
> see a Fedora package anywhere with the script and a google search
> returns some references to the script but not a complete script.

Hi Bryan,
first of all, the 24px icon is totally fab and you are indeed on the right track. Minor nitpicks -- maybe a fewer menu items would be better, and while its purpose is not important, the active item arrow/triangle is completely unclear in shape (fuzzy) - you want to make sure the surface covers at least 4 pixels (3+1). And if you look around the existing icons, we're not afraid to go as far as creating square "pixels" in the vectors to make them sharp :)

You can find the script in gnome-icon-theme. Either download a tarball from http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-icon-theme/2.31/ or clone the git repository*

Good job! Looking forward to see more.

* http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-icon-theme
-- 
Jakub Steiner
http://jimmac.musichall.cz