Activity identicons v 1.99 :) (post-akademy)

[Ivan Čukić]

Hi all,

At aKademy, Nuno proposed a bit different design for identicons used
for plasma activities.

1. The identicons should be showed inside a bubble with background and
an overlay.
2. He will make some default icons for users that want to choose
specific ones instead of the automatically generated.

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1. First, for those who don't know, identicons are essentially a
graphic hash function - depending on the hash, the pattern and base
colour is generated.

The first implementation of the new approach (screenshot of it) is
attached. Naturally, it could look better, but I didn't really have
the time to make fancier SVG template.

The SVG is consisted of a background, content (which is being
"drilled" to provide the pattern), and overlay (which can be "normal"
and "active" *1*). The overlay is not hinted with the hash-generated
colour, while everything else is.

The elements (including the hash-generated patterns) can be of any
shape, not only bubbles, as per theme designer wishes.

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2. We need a list of common activities for Nuno to make icons for.
Ideas? We should get at least 20 :)


Cheerio,
Ivan


*1* In the screenshot, every 4th icon is "activated". I could also add
"hovered" and "disabled" (for stopped activities).

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