Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] TuxPaint UI: Undo/Redo Icon. Tools icons.

[Albert C. <aca...@gm...>]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Ivan Alekseev<na...@gm...> wrote:

>> Really we should do gettext("someicon.png") for all of these.
>> Undo can then be the thumb, backwards arrow, forwards arrow,
>> clockwise arrow, counterclockwise arrow, X, etc.
>
> You mean themed (skined) icons?
> So TuxPaint can be just a base code for any UI, so UI protocol needed.
> Or TuxPaint will be just one product with just one UI? Or one product with
> many skins?
> There are three different ways. Which one is?

I mean localized. It's theming according to country/language.
We adjust much more than just the text. For example, the
whole interface is left-right swapped for some languages.

>> The point is that kids need to learn the words.
>
> So font is too small for young kinds, and too junk for
> older kids. I think so.

It's a bit blurry because it's rendered to an almost-correct
size and then crudely scaled to fit.

Ideally we'd render directly to to required size. Pixel-perfect
sizing can be had with a binary search or, better, a search
that uses an initial rendering to make a size estimate.

Next best would be rendering at least 4x to 5x taller than the
final result. Perhaps linear scaling should be used instead of
the box-filter scaling we currently use. (Note: cubic is awful
for text)