tuxpaint-devel

[Tuxpaint-devel] New graphics for icon

[Jonathan B. (Gmail) <jon...@gm...>]

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 ?

Thanks for answers.

See you soon.
Jonathan

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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Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] New graphics for icon

[Karl O. H. <ka...@hu...>]

Fredag 04 april 2008 skreiv Bill Kendrick:
>> 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.

Let me add my two cents worth. Now that we're talking about updating 
the UI and the Web pages, this is an excellent chance to create a 
consistent, uniform design -- a 'Tux Paint look', if you like.

This would be based on the same colours, graphics, style of graphics, 
design elements, and overall design. Both in the game (including the 
splash screen and icon), the Web pages and the documentation. And
the business cards! :)

-- 
Regards,
Karl Ove Hufthammer

Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] New graphics for icon

[Binaebi A. <ak...@os...>]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Karl Ove Hufthammer <ka...@hu...> wrote:

> Fredag 04 april 2008 skreiv Bill Kendrick:
> >> 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.
>
> Let me add my two cents worth. Now that we're talking about updating
> the UI and the Web pages, this is an excellent chance to create a
> consistent, uniform design -- a 'Tux Paint look', if you like.
>
> This would be based on the same colours, graphics, style of graphics,
> design elements, and overall design. Both in the game (including the
> splash screen and icon), the Web pages and the documentation. And
> the business cards! :)
>

Meaning the website would tie Tux Paint, Tux Math, and Tux Type? Or would
Tux Math and Tux Type still be considered different from Tux Paint?

-- 
Binaebi Akah
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>
> --
> Regards,
> Karl Ove Hufthammer
>
>
>

Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] New graphics for icon

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

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 02:53:55PM -0400, Binaebi Akah wrote:
>    Meaning the website would tie Tux Paint, Tux Math, and Tux Type? Or would
>    Tux Math and Tux Type still be considered different from Tux Paint?

I think it's fine to not restrict all three apps and force them to look
so much the same. :)

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Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] New graphics for icon

[Karl O. H. <ka...@hu...>]

Fredag 04 april 2008 skreiv Bill Kendrick:

>(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:

I'm not a big fan on single apps being themable, but it would be nice if 
Tux Paint could (as an option?) use the icons from the theme of the 
current desktop environment (KDE/GNOME).

-- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer

Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] New graphics for icon

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

On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:47:39PM +0200, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
> 
> I'm not a big fan on single apps being themable, but it would be nice if 
> Tux Paint could (as an option?) use the icons from the theme of the 
> current desktop environment (KDE/GNOME).

That's a very cool idea. :)
Of course, I'd want both (esp. considering Tux Paint runs on other platforms).

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