My apologies for double-posting. From looking at the mailing list archive on the website, my message was cut off after the first paragraph - very strange! I'm attempting to re-send it without rich formatting, which I suspect may have been the culprit.
If the same problem occurs, I won't triple-post ;). I already forwarded the intact message to Cory, just in case. > I'd like others to throw up ideas to be used for our icons. I'll start a > page soon to collect them. > > * One idea: http://dlanham.com/art/somadocs/preview.png > One thing that comes to mind is that these mimetypes (as do the rest of the icons) need to be clearly recognisable at lower sizes. >From the examples: - the zip icons are fine. - the chat icon won't be easily recognisable due to the amount of detail. I wouldn't include a torso (so in other words, plagiarize Pac Man to the fullest extent without breaching copyright or trademarks ;)). - I would never have guessed that a green rectangle with a splash was supposed to represent a psd (or any kind of graphics) file - at any size. I realize that this is not the kind of feedback you're looking for (since you're asking about the templates, in this case being the white page, a representative icon and the mime type written as a subtitle), but I wanted to share my thoughts on the need for clarity in the icons at lower sizes. > > I like the idea of the colored bottom portion where we can add the > extension. (note: i am not content to do the freedesktop thing and have > 1 icon represent a whole family of icons) You mean that you want separate PSD, PNG, and JPG icons instead of one IMAGE icon, for example? Sounds good. What you may want to consider, however, is to keep the icons of these "families" related in representation. For example, make the JPG and PNG icons identical except for the colouring of the icon (or very small tweaks to the image at most). Conn -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
