gEDA-dev: Tomaz's new application icons

[Peter Clifton]

On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 13:17 -0800, Ben Jackson wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 08:51:03PM +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> > Take a look at Tomaz Solc's new application icons:
> > http://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2007/12/17/T20_31_15/
> > 
> > I'll hopefully be putting together a couple of patches to add these to
> > the stock build.
> > 
> > Tomaz made some lovely MIME icons:
> > http://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2007/04/22/T22_41_14/
> 
> They're pretty, but they seem to fail the most basic test:  I can't tell
> what they're for.  At best I can tell that some are schematic-y and some
> are pcb-y.

In order:

Schematic
Symbol
PCB Layout
Gerber file

I suspect there will be some "learning" involved in any case, as there
are only subtle differences between schematic / symbol, PCB layout /
footprint (no icon so far), and gerber file.

I'm sure improvements can be made if you have any suggestions, but for
now at least.. these are better than none.

I did just have an idea... the paper of the schematic icon could be
rotated to landscape orientation, and detailed with a border, however
this would break from similar "document" icons in the usual icon themes.

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Peter Clifton

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