Re: [Gaim-cabal] Status icons again

[Nathan W. <fac...@fa...>]

Sean Egan wrote:
> On 9/25/06, Sean Egan <sea...@gm...> wrote:
>> http://gaim.sf.net/sean/gaim4.png
>> http://gaim.sf.net/sean/gaim5.png
> 
> I just want to add a little more context. We have three sizes for all
> our icons: 32x32 which is being used in the tooltip in gaim4.png,
> 22x22, which is being used for the blist status icon in Big List, and
> 16x16 which is being used in the Small List status icon. They're all
> rendered to be pixel perfect, so no scaling (although we have svg's if
> we need to get any larger)
> 
> gaim4.png also has improved spacing in the tooltip: 12 pixel margins
> instead of 4. This looks better and more closely follows the HIG.
> 
> Sidenote: I'm thinking of doing some website news updates to hush up
> people who are complaining that we're not providing any updates. We've
> been keeping quiet about the icons with the intent to surprise
> everyone with the new icons and the new name at the same time. What do
> you think about telling people about this project and getting it in
> svn sooner, rather than keeping it a secret?
> 
> In either case, I should have a patch up for everyone later today.

I like the idea of keeping the surprise.  Is there any chance we can get 
a beta4 out soon?  That would probably tide people over for a bit 
longer.  Also, I'd really like to have a beta4 win32 build to have here 
at work ;-)

-Nathan