From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Toolbar: Suggestion for improved dired icon. Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:43:31 +0100 Message-ID: References: <42434EC4.3080707@vmlinux.org> <4243641A.3010404@vmlinux.org> <42449270.2000503@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111791398 13290 80.91.229.2 (25 Mar 2005 22:56:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:56:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Joachim Nilsson , GNU Emacs-Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 25 23:56:38 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DExjE-0003t8-2P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:56:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DExyn-0000IN-Cw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:12:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DExwY-00085E-9v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:10:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DExwL-00080G-SJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:10:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DExwK-0007v8-J0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:10:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DExWf-0004Ul-Ad for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:43:33 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DExWe-0007xd-Ki; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:43:33 -0500 Original-To: "Jan D." In-Reply-To: <42449270.2000503@swipnet.se> (Jan D.'s message of "Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:36:32 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:35172 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35172 "Jan D." writes: >>>If Jan has an automated script, that's great. In the meantime I did >>>two new xpm's, a little bit brighter and two sizes bigger than the >>>first one. There are screenshots for them as well. >>> >>>diropen2.xpm - A bit too big, height 24px. >>> >>> >> >>Actually, I find that ok. >> >> >> >>>diropen3.xpm - Feels better, height 20px. >>> >>> >> >>The color appears to be off somewhat, inconsistent with other colors. >>I suggest we wait for Jan to speak up: presumably if he does the >>conversion with his method, what was consistent in GNOME, should >>become consistent in Emacs. >> >> > > The Gnome icons are consistent because the Gnome people designed them > that way, That's what I said. > I didn't do anything in the conversion. Ah, but the question is, just _how_ did you convert them? So that one can convert this item in the same way. > The colors of this icon seem to be a bit off compared to the > standard icons. I don't have any opinion on this icon, if you feel > it is better, check it in. Personally, I definitely find it better than the "d" folder thing. Even though that is not a hard task. > Just don't forget to reduce the colors some more, ideally not more > than hundred. Otherwise people running on 8 bit displays will run > out. When reducing colors, avoid dithering, it looks bad on icons > this small. And use the same palette as for the other icons also, > so the sum of colors Emacs uses doesn't increase (it is on the limit > for 8 bit displays already). Did you do the conversion manually, or did you use some special tool for it? Actually, this is a stupid question since you probably did not use pencil and paper. So what tool did you use, and how? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum