#1247 Issues with Minsky logo/icon

[Hedley Finger]

The current 'tornado' icon has a number of issues that need to be addressed:

• The tornado extends beyond the boundaries of the square page when viewed in Inkscape. This means that the derived favicon.ico (web page icon) and MinskyLogo.ico is truncated on the right side.
• The background is transparent, which means that it is difficult to see the dark-blue tornado on dark backgrounds.
• The tornado is drawn with a very fine line so that its base turns into a blob and the funnel is difficult to perceive.

I have produced a draft logo as a 256x256 px master vector art and an example of a derived 48x48 PNG pixmap icon (open and view files in the attached Zip archive).

The yellow background refers to the colour of the Godley table icon. The white 'op-amp' triangle with two inputs and one output refers to 'circuit' (model) components. The red graph refers to the graph output windows. The accounting equation 'A - L = E' refers to the Godley table viewed as a spreadsheet with the major Assets, Liability, and Equity headings in the same order.

This is the icon for the program/application. The icon for the .mky files would be the standard document with a turned-down RH top corner on which a miniature of the app icon is superimposed.

[Steve Keen]

I like it Hedley. The old icon was just the most interesting-looking simulation in my original Minsky paper from 1995, when the government sector countered the private debt buildup in the private sector. This is much more relevant to what Minsky itself offers.

[Hedley Finger]

I'll now manufacture the .ico, favicon.ico, .png, and .svg files required by Windows and Debian-based OSs. Don't know what Red Hat, Suse, Mandriva, MacOS, etc. require. Is anyone using any of these OSs?

Will also manufacture mime types, .desktop files, etc. to create clickable icons on Debian-based OSs. I guess this is already taken care of for Windows.

[High Performance Coder]

I use SUSE, but don't use the default window manager, but rather use a
rather primitive one dating from the early '90s called fvwm2. I have
no need of icons or mime types as a result.

I think I've figured out how to place icons etc for Windows and MacOS,
but don't have a clue how to configure Linux desktop environments.

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 12:04:58PM -0000, Hedley Finger wrote:

I'll now manufacture the .ico, favicon.ico, .png, and .svg files required by
Windows and Debian-based OSs. Don't know what Red Hat, Suse, Mandriva, MacOS,
etc. require. Is anyone using any of these OSs?

Will also manufacture mime types, .desktop files, etc. to create clickable
icons on Debian-based OSs. I guess this is already taken care of for Windows.

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[tickets:#1247] Issues with Minsky logo/icon

Status: open
Milestone: Malthus
Labels: logo icon
Created: Fri Aug 28, 2020 10:24 AM UTC by Hedley Finger
Last Updated: Fri Aug 28, 2020 11:57 AM UTC
Owner: nobody
Attachments:

• Minsky-logo-pilot.zip (232.3 kB; application/zip)

The current 'tornado' icon has a number of issues that need to be addressed:

• The tornado extends beyond the boundaries of the square page when viewed in
Inkscape. This means that the derived favicon.ico (web page icon) and
MinskyLogo.ico is truncated on the right side.
• The background is transparent, which means that it is difficult to see the
dark-blue tornado on dark backgrounds.
• The tornado is drawn with a very fine line so that its base turns into a
blob and the funnel is difficult to perceive.

I have produced a draft logo as a 256x256 px master vector art and an example
of a derived 48x48 PNG pixmap icon (open and view files in the attached Zip
archive).

The yellow background refers to the colour of the Godley table icon. The white
'op-amp' triangle with two inputs and one output refers to 'circuit' (model)
components. The red graph refers to the graph output windows. The accounting
equation 'A - L = E' refers to the Godley table viewed as a spreadsheet with
the major Assets, Liability, and Equity headings in the same order.

This is the icon for the program/application. The icon for the .mky files would
be the standard document with a turned-down RH top corner on which a miniature
of the app icon is superimposed.

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[High Performance Coder]

Thanks Hedley. I have now integrated these new icons for the Windows/Mac case. If you figure out the Linux desktop data, I'll add that too, but plan to do a full release in the next couple of days (no pressure :).

[Hedley Finger]

1. I want to tweak the app icon to make it look like a glassy button.

2. Make a document button.

3. Export them as .png files at 72 and 96 ppi, and at multiples and submultiples for Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, and other *ubuntu's, etc.

4. Tweak *.png files with a pixmap editor.

5. Place the *.png files in a /usr/share/icons/hicolor/??x??/apps/ tree, where ??x?? are the multiples and submultiples.

6. Place the *.svg file in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/ .

7. Finally, I have to concatenate the *.png files to make an *.ico file for Windows.

So suggest go with the current *.svg and *.png files for the moment.

[Hedley Finger]

Whoops! Also have to make a minsky.desktop file and place it in /usr/share/applications/ .

[Hedley Finger]

The *.desktop file provides a clickable desktop icon for launching Minsky.