Re: [VuFind-Tech] Library application icons

[Greg P. <gre...@gm...>]

Heyo,

As per the discussion in the last developer's call of last year, I think
it's worth looking at what icon sets are already available, and building on
them with common artwork to complete the list Graham has suggested. If we
get a good starting point in terms of style and some base icons, then ask
someone's media department to supplement with additional icons to complete
the collection.

There are sets like this:
http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/

available under open source license. Careful assessment of the license is
always advised of course, but it looks good. Within that Library (although I
found it hard to navigate at first) you'll find nice looking icon libraries
like those available for the KDE environment. Some of their MIME type icons
would be an obvious place to start. Take this one for example:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Clear

A lot of very popular KDE libraries can be found here:
http://kde-look.org/index.php?xsortmode=down&xcontentmode=27

Ta,
Greg



On 10 January 2011 21:09, Seaman, Graham <Gra...@rh...> wrote:

>  After the last Vufind Developers call I said I would put together a list
> of useful icons for library applications. The immediate need for this is to
> supply generic images to fill the cover-image slot in results where no cover
> image has been found (in particular in the Summon interface), but it would
> be useful to build up a full set of library application icons which could be
> used by library software in any context, not just Vufind.  Not having any
> graphical talents I'm just trying to put a list together, and will then see
> if I can find any graphic designers who can help us out with producing icons
> at multiple resolutions.
>
>
>
> I've put my initial list at  http://vufind.org/wiki/icon_set (linked from
> http://vufind.org/wiki/new_feature_specifications). If anyone has any
> ideas or requests for more please add them - and if you see one you think is
> a bad idea, please add a comment to say why.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Graham
>
>
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