From: Benny M. <ben...@gm...> - 2012-09-22 08:48:59
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2012/9/21 Zissis Papadopoulos <zi...@ma...> > Hello Nick, > > Icon design for Gramps is definitely an interesting and challenging > project. I would gladly make an effort towards this direction. > I am currently translating Gramps into greek and it goes quite well. I > also have some ideas to spice up our website a little bit... > Jason has even used some of my proposed artwork in the website. > As far as the icons are concerned, I will need some guidance about the > required icon dimensions. I noticed that in the installation files [C:\Program > Files\GrampsAIO\share\gramps\images] there are 3 directories with 16x16, > 22x22 and 48x48 icons. However, there is also the 'scalable' directory > which contains the .svg version of the icons. Is it necessary to prepare > the .svg version too? Does the program actually use it? (I am pretty > competent with Photoshop but not so confident with Illustrator, > nevertheless, I will see what I can do) > All icons must be svg. Like this they scale for different needed sizes, use in other material, ... Note that 22 and 48 icons are created from the svg, but the 16x16 sometimes from a reduced/simplified svg file. The code loads the svg as base, and then loads the existing 16, 22 and 48 png icons so as not to loose time creating bitmaps from svg. The style guide for our icons are here: http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library A new icon normally starts based on one of the Tango icons. which have I think a Creative Commons license. Benny > > Regards > > Zissis > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Nick Hall > > Sent: 09/20/12 05:53 PM > > To: Zissis Papadopoulos > > Subject: Re: [Gramps-devel] Gramps Artwork > > Zissis, > > Are you interested in doing any icon design for Gramps? > > Some of the toolbar icons could do with improving. There are also a > couple of new views that will need icons. > > Regards, > > Nick. > > > On 29/07/12 18:10, Zissis Papadopoulos wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > This is my first contribution effort in Gramps and I am very excited about > it. I am no programmer but I believe I could help with the website's > artwork in terms of enhancing the current gramps homepage look and make it > a little bit more appealing, especially for people who are unfamilar to the > whole Linux universe [I am a Windows user with little Linux experience > (Ubuntu) and even less in MacOSX]. Gramps is an incredible piece of > software whose reputation is growing but I think it could benefit from a > light facelift. > > https://dl.dropbox.com/u/25199816/Gramps_Box_Design.png > > On the above link, you will find a graphic file (Gramps_Box_Design.png) > which could be possibly used in the Gramps homepage, as a potential > replacement of the current homepage main graphic (Intro_Homepage.png). > > If you like the concept, please instruct me what I have to do next. I am > already working on a cover artwork for the complete offline "Gramps Wiki > Manual" ( > http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/images/d/d6/GRAMPS_3_3_Prince.pdf) > based on the same concept. If you like the idea, I can send this too upon > completion. > If I have posted this in the wrong place, please correct me (and forgive > the newbie)... > > Happy to collaborate with you all, you are a fantastic team. > > > Zissis Papadopoulos > Genealogy hobbyist - Graphic design lover > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-devel mailing list Gra...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-devel > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Got visibility? > Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. > Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219671;13503038;y? > http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html > _______________________________________________ > Gramps-devel mailing list > Gra...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gramps-devel > > |