Hi,
I have some great icon with me.... If U request I will give for free
Sent from my linux Phone From: Colin Finck Sent: 31-08-2013 PM 03:36 To: ros-dev@reactos.org Subject: [ros-dev] Easy job for enhancing our Explorer! Hi all!
As suggested in the meeting on Thursday, we need someone to create replacements for all icons used in Windows Explorer. Just have a look at this screenshot of Giannis' recent work to get an idea: http://i.imgur.com/WzxVn7V.png It definitely looks promising, but we obviously can't release it with the XP icons ;)
Gladly, the Tango icon library contains a lot of great icons, which may already be suitable for Explorer. Others could be created easily when mixing several icons. For example, the icon for the "Folders" button in Explorer can be created out of two simple folders, and a single folder icon is definitely present in Tango. This only requires basic knowledge of Inkscape (www.inkscape.org).
To give you another example: I already needed such "mixed" icons in my PeopleMap. I've released my modified SVG files here: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/web/trunk/resources/peoplemap/?pathrev=700
Apart from the fairly simple Inkscape task, the icons need to be properly converted to ICO files in all required sizes. Giannis or other shell guys can probably tell you about the sizes we need. At least, this requires a proper icon editor with support for 24/32 bit icons (used to be a problem in the past, don't know if it still is). For just creating ICO files out of existing PNG files, I had good experiences with "@icon sushi" (http://www.towofu.net/soft/e-aicon.php).
So, there we have it: A job for enhancing our Explorer which doesn't even need a developer! :) If I had time for it, I'd probably do it myself, but I'm pretty sure there are other interested people as well.
Cheers,
Colin
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Colin, not sure if you saw this on the forum: http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=12723
Some of the community members have already been exploring alternate icon sets.
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Ameer Ali ameerali.ma@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I have some great icon with me.... If U request I will give for free
Sent from my linux Phone From: Colin Finck Sent: 31-08-2013 PM 03:36 To: ros-dev@reactos.org Subject: [ros-dev] Easy job for enhancing our Explorer! Hi all!
As suggested in the meeting on Thursday, we need someone to create replacements for all icons used in Windows Explorer. Just have a look at this screenshot of Giannis' recent work to get an idea: http://i.imgur.com/WzxVn7V.png It definitely looks promising, but we obviously can't release it with the XP icons ;)
Gladly, the Tango icon library contains a lot of great icons, which may already be suitable for Explorer. Others could be created easily when mixing several icons. For example, the icon for the "Folders" button in Explorer can be created out of two simple folders, and a single folder icon is definitely present in Tango. This only requires basic knowledge of Inkscape (www.inkscape.org).
To give you another example: I already needed such "mixed" icons in my PeopleMap. I've released my modified SVG files here: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/web/trunk/resources/peoplemap/?pathrev=700
Apart from the fairly simple Inkscape task, the icons need to be properly converted to ICO files in all required sizes. Giannis or other shell guys can probably tell you about the sizes we need. At least, this requires a proper icon editor with support for 24/32 bit icons (used to be a problem in the past, don't know if it still is). For just creating ICO files out of existing PNG files, I had good experiences with "@icon sushi" (http://www.towofu.net/soft/e-aicon.php).
So, there we have it: A job for enhancing our Explorer which doesn't even need a developer! :) If I had time for it, I'd probably do it myself, but I'm pretty sure there are other interested people as well.
Cheers,
Colin
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Zachary Gorden drakekaizer666@gmail.com wrote:
Some of the community members have already been exploring alternate icon sets.
This doesn't change anything. Don't believe that any available icon set contains all icons we ever need for our GUI. Someone definitely has to take Inkscape and create the missing ones.
Besides, we should work towards a consistent style in our GUI, and we're currently achieving this by using the Tango icon set. Other icon libraries of trusted vendors may be considered (like Oxygen from KDE, http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdesupport/oxygen-icons/). But then, someone must replace all icons of all ReactOS applications at once. We definitely can't rely on individual people creating 10 icons and then vanishing.
- Colin
Starting thinking about some guideline or so may be also great (à la https://www.haiku-os.org/development/icon-guidelines ).
HBM.
-----Message d'origine----- De : ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org] De la part de Colin Finck Envoyé : dimanche 1 septembre 2013 15:15 À : ros-dev@reactos.org Objet : Re: [ros-dev] Easy job for enhancing our Explorer!
Zachary Gorden drakekaizer666@gmail.com wrote:
Some of the community members have already been exploring alternate icon
sets.
This doesn't change anything. Don't believe that any available icon set contains all icons we ever need for our GUI. Someone definitely has to take Inkscape and create the missing ones.
Besides, we should work towards a consistent style in our GUI, and we're currently achieving this by using the Tango icon set. Other icon libraries of trusted vendors may be considered (like Oxygen from KDE, http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdesupport/oxygen-icons/). But then, someone must replace all icons of all ReactOS applications at once. We definitely can't rely on individual people creating 10 icons and then vanishing.
- Colin
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