On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 11:06 +0100, Martin Sourada wrote:
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 19:21 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
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On 03/12/2010 02:43 AM, Martin Sourada wrote:
How about trying making it more marble-like (I'm not sure how to better expres it, but the top face look a bit odd so I thought about making this part round like in gnome icons). Maybe even add some light reflection like in video-display (try making the surface reflective). Or maybe the traditional echo approach with white inner outline (and bright blue instead of the dark blue) would be better?
Can you try making the shadow more transparent as it goes farther from the point where the icon stands?
On 256x256 you could bulge the person a little.
The border is too little in contrast with the icon, please fix that as well, I'd suggest both making the icon brighter and the border a bit darker at the bottom.
Updated icons similar to gnome version. Because of the rounded shape, it is not easy to properly set the pixel to reduce the blurriness.
Well, if you're going with echo-ish look, the sides need to be white and border metallic. And the inner outline needs to be about twice as thick. The gradient also needs to be smoother (there's visible "step" in 48x48). IMHO you can reuse the one in echo-perspective-action-new template (but bear in mind that this template still has the wrong direction of light). The same goes for the other comments I had.
Alternatively you can also inspire in e.g. help-information from echo ([git]/sources/base/one-canvas/help-information.svg).
Following one of my earlier suggestions, I've tried the marble-like approach (256x256 only). I attach the result. It resembles the gnome icon a lot... It should however scale better to smaller sizes than the more echo-ish version (but might need some tweaking on 48x48 as gnome's SVG renderer does not seem to support masks).
Martin