[334] in Athena User Interface
Re: Graphics needed for Athena User Interface
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Wed Jul 26 20:24:39 2000
Message-Id: <200007270024.UAA06171@hikari-no-ken.mit.edu>
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
cc: aui@MIT.EDU, plitwack@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jul 2000 19:29:13 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 20:24:35 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
On 7/26 "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> So here's the detailed lists, as promised. People should let me know
> if I've made any mistakes.
Mails such as this are intolerable. Something containing as many
technical details as this must be correct, lest we embarrass
ourselves. The best way to do this is to send it to the list *before*
being sent to outsiders. If there is a time crunch then you can
find people individually to review it.
Specifically, neither I nor yak (nor anyone else on this list, to my
knowledge) fully understands the gdk color system. Thus all statements
about what colors the designers should be using are possibly/likely
wrong.
I am trying to find enlightenment with gdk tonight. Please send mail
to the graphic designers telling them to disregard your mail. I will
come up with as much technical detail as I can tonight, and tomorrow
we can see if we have enough to get in contact with them.
> - 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.
I have reconsidered the idea of making icons with text labels. This
solution is actually quite inferior, and will actually use staff
resources. Thus we should avoid it until I have a chance to try to
make automatic labels work.
tibbetts
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