Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] New graphics for icon

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 07:06:25PM +0200, Jonathan Blois (Gmail) wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I've just subscribe to the TuxPaint developer mailing list.
> 
> Are you interested in nw designs for the TuxPaint icons ?
> And perhaps a new way to organize the GUI ?

Hi Jonathan, I'm certainly interested in new icons, esp. if they come
in the form of either (1) SVG vectors, or (2) very, very large, scalable
PNGs.

The reason is three fold:

(1) At least one teacher has asked if Tux Paint's icons were available
    in 8"x11" format, for printing on paper, to teach students about
    the program.  Sadly, no, they're all currently ~40x40 _pixels_. :^(

(2) Vector-based images will (hopefully) scale down well, and look good,
    but also be editable in the future.

(3) I'd like Tux Paint to be theme'able, and one aspect of this is increasing
    the size of the buttons (from the 48x48 with 40x40 icons within),
    which would help with:
    (a) people using Tux Paint at huge resolutions (48x48 was fine for 640x480
        on a screen that was at 640x480 thru 1024x768 or so, but any higher,
        and the UI starts getting small, relative to the screen area).
    (b) users with visual impairments
    In addition to larger icons, it would be nice to have a 'high contrast'
    UI, but that mostly has to do with the glossy, candy-like, Apple Mac OS X
    Aqua(tm) insipired button backgrounds.

Thanks,

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