Icons to be designed

[Fania Bremmer]

Hi there,

I collected most of the icons we have so far in Plasma Active and tried 
to analyse and group them a bit,
see http://share.basyskom.com/contour/UIDesign/Icon_List_PA.jpg for details.

The icons with an orange shape around are icons we should redesign, or 
at least discuss about...

This would be my feedback:
TOP BAR
- If we want to stick to the first icons of the top bar, these icons 
always should be single color, just white, with grey outline, no shadow. 
That would mean an adaption to:
- Share Icon (white with outline), maybe also another symbol? Something 
like this: 
http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/49435/128/icon_share_this_icon?
- Like Icon (white with outline)
- Connect (white with outline), maybe also another symbol? Like this 
http://www.webhelpdesk.com/images/icon_link-integrate.png?
- Home (white with outline), reduced details
- Shutdown Icon: here an ongoing discussion about the icon itself needs 
to be solved first

CATEGORIES
- As with the newest implementation the categories dont have any icons 
anymore, maybe we dont need to redo them. If we need them somewhere else 
I would prefer a change in symbol for Bookmark (looks like "Like") and 
Apps (looks like "Settings")
- The "Like" Feature should either have always hearts (as an Icon in the 
top bar as also for rating in the context menu), or always have stars
- Bookmark icon: star would be already taken for "like", so another icon 
needed
- Recently visited: ongoing discussion

- Lock, Sleep and Hibernate Icons need a rebrush of color and style, as 
we already pointed out for PA2. The symbols are fine, in my opinion, 
maybe only sleep is a bit vague?

Another thing is striking here: the different styles in general. Some 
icons do have a drop shadow, some have an outline, some have colors, 
others are just whitish, most of them have buttons underneath, some are 
circles, others are squares. I know that we mostly "borrow" icons from 
somewhere because of the lack of an icon designer with lots of time ;) 
But maybe we find a unique look&feel we want to apply in general and for 
all future icons?

So, this is my first attempt in smoothing out the icon collection in PA 
a bit :)
Feedback welcome.


Am 02.01.2012 14:57, schrieb Lamarque V. Souza:
>
> Em Monday 02 January 2012, Thomas Pfeiffer escreveu:
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > Eugene Trounev from the Oxygen team has offered to create icons for us.
>
> > Now I need to know which icons we need. The ones that come to my 
> mind are:
>
> > - Share, Like, Connect
>
> > - Home
>
> > - Shutdown and Prevent Sleep for the lock screen
>
> > Anything else?
>
> > I told Eugene that we need "about five icons", so we should not ask 
> for a
>
> > lot more than that.
>
> > Regards,
>
> > Thomas
>
> If he has plenty of time I would like to have new icons for Plasma NM, 
> which is used in Balsam image and we may eventually adopt in MeeGo 
> image. I need a new disconnect icon, I like the call-stop.png icon but 
> it is too red and does not fit with most Plasma themes. If he could 
> change it to something with a different background, even transparent 
> background I think I can use it. For now I am using the 
> user-offline.png icon for the disconnect button, but I do not think it 
> is easily identifiable as a "disconnect" icon.
>
> I also need a new icon for the Plasma NM app, the networkmanager.png 
> icon is ugly and several people have complained about it.
>
> Another thing I would like to do is move the icons for mobile 
> broadband connections inside the file 
> networkmanagement/applet/network.svgz to 
> kde-runtime/desktoptheme/air/icons/network.svgz. Firstly I would like 
> someone from the oxygen team to review those icons, maybe Eugene can 
> do that for me.
>
> -- 
>
> Lamarque V. Souza
>
> KDE's Network Management maintainer
>
> http://planetkde.org/pt-br
>
>
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