gEDA-dev: Tomaz's new application icons

[Peter Clifton]

On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 17:44 -0600, John Griessen wrote:
> Peter Clifton wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 13:17 -0800, Ben Jackson wrote:
> 
> >>> 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.
> 
> Me too.  what on earth does the yellow horizontal something represent?
> It has the qualities of injection molded plastic is all I can tell about it.

Its a ruler (in the same style used in the icon theme designed to fit
with).

My preference would be to keep the ruler / set square in the MIME / app
icons with the same style.

> But, I'd rather not have it so glitzy.
> I have no problem with including a hand made sketch
> as part of a circuit design tool.

I think we need to fit in with the desktop in terms of colours /
imagery, so (within reason), we need the glitz.

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Peter Clifton

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