Re: [ros-dev] Easy job for enhancing our Explorer!

[Ameer Ali]

Hi,

I have some great icon with me....
If U request I will give for free



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From: Colin Finck
Sent: 31-08-2013 PM 03:36
To: ros-dev(a)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]

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(a)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(a)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 Finck]

Zachary Gorden <drakekaizer666(a)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

[Hermès BÉLUSCA - MAÏTO]

Starting thinking about some guideline or so may be also great (à la
https://www.haiku-os.org/development/icon-guidelines ).

HBM.

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Zachary Gorden <drakekaizer666(a)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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