RES: K-ARTIST: Re: New icon guide

[Ante Wessels]

AFAICS, your e-mail went only to the core list, not the artists list, which 
may be unintended.

On Martes 24 Febrero 2004 14:04, Rob Kaper wrote:
> 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.

I always push for something else :-)

The crystal sources are in many directories. May be there are a few artists 
with head running at home who have an overview of the crystal vector sources, 
the rest of us does not have such an overview. I guess things start with 
knowing what is around.

I tried to write a script to download just the crystal sources. With a ftp 
server something like this would work: 

wget -rN -t 45 -l 10 -A "crsc-*.svgz,crsc-*.svg" -P $DEST1 -o 
$DEST1/crystal_log $SOURCE1

But the kde ftp server has it all tarred up. The cvs server can not be reached 
with this, etc (I even tried the xls server, it has a robot.txt) 

I know running head at home would solve this (find crsc-*.svgz) but with my 
dail-in modem it is too much a detour. A tar with the sources at kde-look.org 
would make many artists happy. And happy artists tend to produce more. 

Cordialemente,

Ante



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