[drupal-devel] icons : go for tango
Hi, in 4.7 we will see quite some icons. All designers and a lot of developers know that designing icons is a very very hard tough and difficult job. I propose that we add a line to the develops guidelines that if we include icons, we use the Tango ones. Otherwise we will end up with various styles, inconsistent looks and a lot of reinvented weels. http://tango-project.org/Tango_Icon_Gallery << The Tango Desktop Project exists to create a consistent user experience for free and Open Source software with graphical user interfaces.>> -- http://tango-project.org/ Bèr -- PGP ber@webschuur.com http://www.webschuur.com/sites/webschuur.com/files/ber_webschuur.asc PGP berkessels@gmx.net http://www.webschuur.com/sites/webschuur.com/files/ber_gmx.asc
I very much like the idea of selecting a "standard" set of icons but the Tango set only includes 16x16 and 22x22 sizes. I'd like to include a larger set in my Control Panel module. On 10/24/05, Bèr Kessels <ber@webschuur.com> wrote:
Hi,
in 4.7 we will see quite some icons. All designers and a lot of developers know that designing icons is a very very hard tough and difficult job.
I propose that we add a line to the develops guidelines that if we include icons, we use the Tango ones. Otherwise we will end up with various styles, inconsistent looks and a lot of reinvented weels.
http://tango-project.org/Tango_Icon_Gallery
<< The Tango Desktop Project exists to create a consistent user experience for free and Open Source software with graphical user interfaces.>> -- http://tango-project.org/
Bèr -- PGP ber@webschuur.com http://www.webschuur.com/sites/webschuur.com/files/ber_webschuur.asc PGP berkessels@gmx.net http://www.webschuur.com/sites/webschuur.com/files/ber_gmx.asc
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 20:31 -0400, David Reed wrote:
I very much like the idea of selecting a "standard" set of icons but the Tango set only includes 16x16 and 22x22 sizes. I'd like to include a larger set in my Control Panel module.
It uses svg for larger sizes: it's possible to generate pngs of any size from them -- Egon Bianchet <egon.bianchet@gmail.com>
Op dinsdag 25 oktober 2005 08:33, schreef Egon Bianchet:
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 20:31 -0400, David Reed wrote:
I very much like the idea of selecting a "standard" set of icons but the Tango set only includes 16x16 and 22x22 sizes. I'd like to include a larger set in my Control Panel module.
It uses svg for larger sizes: it's possible to generate pngs of any size from them
It is SVG indeed. Another -cool- thing IMHO is that if we need to design our own icons and we do so in their style, we can submit them to Tango. Bèr -- PGP ber@webschuur.com http://www.webschuur.com/sites/webschuur.com/files/ber_webschuur.asc PGP berkessels@gmx.net http://www.webschuur.com/sites/webschuur.com/files/ber_gmx.asc
Wow, this looks like a fun thread. :) I don't want to seem to biased, but I'm on the "People" list of people working on the Tango Project. (not too involved with things other than Moral support and feedback at this point). I do think that we should probably adopt the naming conventions, as well as the style guide for icons for the control panel. They are good solid standard icons, and we should save ourselves work as much as possible when we can. Also, should we create any new icons for things that don't exist, we should follow the style guides, and maybe our work can then in turn help out the Tango project. So, I would simply +1 using the Tango Project icons. That is all. :) Trae -- Trae "occy" McCombs || http://occy.net/ Founder - Themes.org // Linux.com CivicSpaceLabs - http://civicspacelabs.org/
I propose that we add a line to the develops guidelines that if we include icons, we use the Tango ones. Otherwise we will end up with various styles, inconsistent looks and a lot of reinvented weels.
http://tango-project.org/Tango_Icon_Gallery
<< The Tango Desktop Project exists to create a consistent user experience for free and Open Source software with graphical user interfaces.>>
I agree in principle, but shouldn't we be able to choose from a larger pool of iconsets. Don't get me wrong - I don't propose custom iconsets in 4.7 - that will be too much, with too little time left. No, I suggest if choosing a default iconset then consider the ones in openclipart. http://openclipart.freedesktop.org Namewise the different icon-themes should be compatible.
Op dinsdag 25 oktober 2005 12:39, schreef vlado:
No, I suggest if choosing a default iconset then consider the ones in openclipart. http://openclipart.freedesktop.org
Namewise the different icon-themes should be compatible.
I have only one problem with openclipart: its really very inconsistent. Often just plain ugly ;). Tango is there only a few month now, So I beleive the pool will be growing. Another icon pool would be the KDE ones. They have really nice iconsets, and in general are much more consistent then the Gnome ones. Bèr -- PGP ber@webschuur.com http://www.webschuur.com/sites/webschuur.com/files/ber_webschuur.asc PGP berkessels@gmx.net http://www.webschuur.com/sites/webschuur.com/files/ber_gmx.asc
I have only one problem with openclipart: its really very inconsistent. Often just plain ugly ;). Tango is there only a few month now, So I beleive the pool will be growing. I personally quite like the flat theme there, and I find it quite consistent.
But....
Another icon pool would be the KDE ones. They have really nice iconsets, and in general are much more consistent then the Gnome ones. :) I hope we won't start a kde/gnome/whatever flame here.
The easiest way around that is vote - we won't have consesus. There are too many people with different tastes. The good thing would be to put down the (existing) naming conventions, and select a default iconset from a pool of more than one. Cheers, Vlado
The other thing we can do is ship with different sets of icons and use a naming convention, like with forum icons. Then we don't need a vote or anything else. vlado wrote:
The easiest way around that is vote - we won't have consesus. There are too many people with different tastes.
The other thing we can do is ship with different sets of icons and use a naming convention, like with forum icons. Then we don't need a vote or anything else. True. I just didn't want to start that before 4.7. Although the most straightforward approach would be a contrib module which adds a stylesheet overriding the 'default' iconset.
For this to succeed we will need to use stylesheets and not html to set the different icons. I might have a demo of that the next couple of days. I have working code, but need to convert everything for HEAD. To do that there is a need to patch node.module to theme the node_add output, which I consider a bug, that it is not themeable.
Op 25-okt-2005, om 14:31 heeft vlado het volgende geschreven:
The other thing we can do is ship with different sets of icons and use a naming convention, like with forum icons. Then we don't need a vote or anything else.
True. I just didn't want to start that before 4.7. Although the most straightforward approach would be a contrib module which adds a stylesheet overriding the 'default' iconset.
For this to succeed we will need to use stylesheets and not html to set the different icons.
I might have a demo of that the next couple of days. I have working code, but need to convert everything for HEAD.
To do that there is a need to patch node.module to theme the node_add output, which I consider a bug, that it is not themeable. Don't forget about the poll-block, which isn't themable either!
Maybe we can make a by PHP generated stylesheet? So we can get rid of the inline style="styling-cruft" either? This is something which would make drupal XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant, adds little complexity to the code, but imo the pro's are much bigger than the cons.. How about that? Steef --- Stefan Nagtegaal Drupal-Devel@iStyledThis.nl Drupal Development Mailinglist
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vlado