RES: K-ARTIST: Re: New icon guide

[Rob Kaper]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 10:51:20AM -0300, Everaldo wrote:
> I am really sad in seeing people like you criticizing my work

That's part of open source communities. Unlike employers, peer reviewers
can't order people around, so criticism is the next best thing. And often it
is only there to help improve the product.

That said, I'm still hoping for Crystal to become somewhat more complete and
up-to-date wrt non-core icons:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51048

Do we have a formal process what happens when a developer adds a new GUI
element requiring an icon that isn't present? I currently:

1) Just scribble something ugly and assume the artists will do icon QA
   themselves using the script I've provided, akin to translators
   automatically picking up new strings instead of me having to bug them for
   every change.

or

2) Don't bother to create the icon and assume the artists will do QA
   themselves.

As a somewhat similar problem, KDE could *really* use more generic action
icons such as "io_in", "io_out", "net_io_in", "net_io_out". I'm currently
using left/rightarrow for that, but it's far from optimal.

I'll gladly help making a kdesdk tool for the artists to make it easier for
them to do QA on iconsets akin to KBabel. Let me know if you're interested.

Rob
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