Programming and Scripting :: iconthemeswitcher in lua



In other words, stick with simple shapes and lines no smaller than 2-pixels wide. As I noticed with one of my own XPMs, if a 32-px icon gets scaled to 16, 1-px lines will either get horribly mutilated or disappear entirely.

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I have seen "disk-pack" looking icons used or ?

Does that mean a stack of disks or ?
@mikshaw: I think a database icon won't be too hard to create.

And i'll try too make some nice icons, starting with the console icon :)
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@mikshaw: I think a database icon won't be too hard to create.
It isn't so much the creation itself that I think would be more difficult, but the initial design. "mydsl" is a pretty specific subject when compared to "database", a much more ambiguous term.  Ideally an icon conveys a descriptive and intuitive concept using a very simple image, which is a more difficult task for general concepts that are applied to many unrelated applications.
As an example, the first google hit for a database icon reference was this:
http://www.aha-soft.com/stock-icons/database-icons.htm
Personally I don't see "database" when I look at these icons....I see an oil drum. But apparently this disk stack concept has somehow come to represent database.  Does that mean this representation is accurate?

In my eyes it is one of the biggest problems with an icon-centric desktop. Only after the user learns to associate a given image with a given concept does that image serve a useful purpose, and some concepts are much easier to associate with an image than others.
mikshaw:
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Personally I don't see "database" when I look at these icons....I see an oil drum. But apparently this disk stack concept has somehow come to represent database.  Does that mean this representation is accurate?

In my eyes it is one of the biggest problems with an icon-centric desktop. Only after the user learns to associate a given image with a given concept does that image serve a useful purpose, and some concepts are much easier to associate with an image than others.

Concur on the point that a MyDSL icon is probably better than stacked disk icons. Two icons might work, one for the app (MyDSL db Browser) and one for database MIME-type association. The latter is probably easier because it could use an existing icon and edit in SQL/SQLite (or just "db") in place of whatever is on a stock icon -- and then it would stay relatively small in size. The former is still a puzzle unless it's specific to MyDSL. I thought of something like a penguin with a waiter's tray but I would associate that more with some other server application. Plus that would be a bloated icon since it would have too many lines and colors.


jaapz:
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And i'll try too make some nice icons, starting with the console icon

Please remember the preference is smaller. The more lines and the more colors, the bigger it will be.:)
I made an executable icon, and reduced colors on the xpdf one. The executable could replace files-yellow-exec.xpm.

Sizes:
executable.xpm   3032
xpdf.xpm            2245

Png previews (that don't look quite right, seems shareapic crops a bit)

The icons themselves: http://rapidshare.com/files/107170976/icons.tgz.html
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