Re: Icon sizes for menus
Kenneth MacDonald:
> Here's the standard colourmap from GIMP 0.99.1. Very readable. Looks
> to be the same as the standard MS 16 colour palette too (with
> additional grey levels).
> GIMP Palette
> # Default -- GIMP Palette file
> 255 0 0 Red
> 255 0 255 Magenta
> 0 0 255 Blue
> 0 255 255 Cyan
> 0 255 0 Green
> 255 255 0 Yellow
> 127 0 0 Dark Red
> 127 0 127 Dark Magenta
> 0 0 127 Dark Blue
> 0 127 127 Dark Cyan
> 0 127 0 Dark Green
> 130 127 0 Dark Yellow
I believe that this one is 127 127 0 in the windows colormap (if it
matters :-).
> 0 0 0 Black
> 25 25 25 Gray 10%
> 51 51 51 Gray 20%
> 76 76 76 Gray 30%
> 102 102 102 Gray 40%
> 127 127 127 Gray 50%
> 153 153 153 Gray 60%
> 178 178 178 Gray 70%
> 204 204 204 Gray 80%
> 229 229 229 Gray 90%
> 255 255 255 White
I wonder if these extra greys will be useful in our colormap? I suppose they
would let you do decent greyscale icons if you wanted to.
I think we should settle on a 32 color colormap. The 16 colors from
windows/gimp are a good start.
> Unfortunately, when working with icons as small as 16x16, it's more up
> to good initial design than simply shrinking an existing larger
> picture. A good start, though, no doubt, and better than nothing.
Unfortunatly, not all debian devlopers are artists. And none of us are going
to want to spend huge amounts of time fiddling with icons for all the
programs in our packages that have menu entries. Also, shrinking an image is
good if you already have an icon, but it's too big.
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