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From: | Justin Fuhrer |
Subject: | Re: [Gnucap-devel] Icon for gnucap? |
Date: | Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:08:18 -0700 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) |
Peter Clifton wrote:
On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 20:23 -0700, Justin Fuhrer wrote:Justin Fuhrer wrote:Sorry, looks like the mailing list stripped my attachments. See here instead:http://fb.xenostarz.com/index.php?fpp=10&did=3If you wanted to include some anti-aliased elements, draw up the schematic portion of the symbol in a git HEAD gschem, (which features anti-aliased rendering), switch the grid off, and screen-capture at an appropriate size.
That's a good idea. I avoided anti-aliasing altogether and redrew the wiring/components/graph by hand in pixel form for the 48x48 version.
The symbology looks fine to me - although I guess implying that gnucap draws graphs is an aspiration to better plotting integration ;). Doing icons for text based apps can be a challenge. Some kind of abstract logo (rather than program icon) would have also been another option - which avoids the need to design so it can be simplified to a scaled version (down to about 21x21px). I guess it just depends if anyone thinks gnucap ought to have a launcher in a GUI desktop's menu, or whether it only makes sense to run from a command line.
Thanks for this input, Peter, you're exactly right. It's hard to reasonably represent a console-only data/analysis tool. First try, anyway. :P
The only concept I managed to come up with for gnucap would have been a circuit fragment, with a component (or perhaps the whole fragment graphic), hooked up to a graphic element looking like an ECG / oscilloscope / chart of some kind.
This isn't a bad idea, a circuit hooked up to a measurement machine. Works better than schematic + graph, in my mind. I'll be back...
Thanks, Justin
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