[333] in Athena User Interface
Graphics needed for Athena User Interface
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Wed Jul 26 19:29:20 2000
Message-Id: <200007262329.TAA01527@whack-a-mole.mit.edu>
To: debby@MIT.EDU, timblack@MIT.EDU
cc: aui@MIT.EDU, plitwack@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:29:13 -0400
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
So here's the detailed lists, as promised. People should let me know
if I've made any mistakes.
I'm generally available for questions and demos on a flexible
schedule; afternoons are better. In case you need to visit us again,
the Watchmaker Zone is now located in W92-140; there's a shuttle from
main campus; see the MIT Parking and Transportation page for details.
I'm also happy to come to main campus as needed.
-B.
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Items we know we want:
- On colors: Establish a sensible set of 16, try to stick with these
as much as possible for things where number of colors is important
(though going up to 20-24 should be OK).
- Slashscreen for login sequence. Number of colors not important.
400-600 pixels wide, no higher than 600 pixels. PNG format.
- Default background for login. GIF, JPEG, or PNG formats are all
OK. Limited colors. Smallest displays we care about are 800x600
pixels (width by height) minus the space taken up by the Gnome
taskbar. Gnome can auto-size background pic to fit visible space,
optionally maintaining proper aspect ratio. However, screen sizes
do go all the way up to 1280x1024 or even 1600x1200. A nice tiled,
interlocked background might be preferable. (By the way, I found
some pictures on the web of actual Athenian coins, which it turns
out the current Athena logo is based on; see
http://web.mit.edu/beland/is-pics/)
- Icons for the programs in the below list. These will nominally be
displayed at 48x48 pixels (PNG format, with alpha channel) but can
be made as large as 80 pixels. Creating 48x48 and 96x96 versions
should be sufficient to start. We will need two versions, one with
the title of the program overlayed on top of the icon, and one with
no text. Both should used a limited color set.
- gnome-terminal preferably featuring the text "athena%" in the
graphics with the title "xterm"
- Netscape
- Emacs (yak-like creature)
- Gnome Control Center
- Help
- Athena Menu (note problem with overlayed triangle)
- Gnome menu (no text version needed)
- Lock screen
- Logout
The logout button definitely needs a new graphic that is more
obvious; xterm probably does, too. The others don't necessarily
need anything terribly new unless you think they do.
- Three-headed dog in various poses. Contact Peter Litwack
(plitwack@mit.edu) for details.
Things we might want later:
- An icon for the new mail reader (probably Evolution) that's
consistent with the others
- An icon for the new file manager (probably Nautilus) that's
consistent with the others
- Small icons (20x20 or less) for programs in the menu system,
without text overlays
- Custom graphics for new Sawfish theme
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