Обсуждение: Smoother PostgreSQL icons
I noticed that the included PostgreSQL elephant icons (that are used by some packages to create menu entries and so on) are kind of boxy: elephant48.xpm, pgAdmin3.ico, pgAdmin3.xpm. I've created some new ones from the master source in .ai format: http://www.credativ.com/~pei/pgadmin-icons/. You can also easily create those yourself at build time using ImageMagick or let the packagers build them if you include the .ai in your CVS.
Peter Eisentraut wrote: >I noticed that the included PostgreSQL elephant icons (that are used by some >packages to create menu entries and so on) are kind of boxy: elephant48.xpm, >pgAdmin3.ico, pgAdmin3.xpm. I've created some new ones from the master >source in .ai format: http://www.credativ.com/~pei/pgadmin-icons/. You can >also easily create those yourself at build time using ImageMagick or let the >packagers build them if you include the .ai in your CVS. > > > These images look better on a white background, unfortunately on a colored background (e.g. win32 desktop) the smoothing algorithm causes an ugly white edge. This problem was the reason why I made them full-color. With smoothing, a gradual transparency would be needed, I believe icons can't do that. Any idea? Regards, Andreas
Le dimanche 25 Avril 2004 19:30, Andreas Pflug a écrit : > These images look better on a white background, unfortunately on a > colored background (e.g. win32 desktop) the smoothing algorithm causes > an ugly white edge. This problem was the reason why I made them > full-color. With smoothing, a gradual transparency would be needed, I > believe icons can't do that. Any idea? Dear Andreas, Nice and good looking icons. Maybe you can apply a gray smoothing in the background. To achieve this, you can duplicate the layer, apply gaussian blur, make it 20% transparent and move the resulting layer to the background. As I do not run MS Windows, I cannot garantee results under Win32, just a thought... Cheers, Jean-Michel
Andreas Pflug wrote: > These images look better on a white background, unfortunately on a > colored background (e.g. win32 desktop) the smoothing algorithm > causes an ugly white edge. This problem was the reason why I made > them full-color. With smoothing, a gradual transparency would be > needed, I believe icons can't do that. Any idea? On a KDE desktop, these new icons (the PNG ones) look "perfect" whereas the existing ones look "terrible". Perhaps we just need a broader collection of icons and the packager can choose which one is the most appropriate one.
----Message d'origine---- >De: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> >A: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> > >On a KDE desktop, these new icons (the PNG ones) look "perfect" whereas >the existing ones look "terrible". If talking about the Debian package ones, they are the one distributed upstream, I needed to quickly resize them to be lintianclean. The fact is that the ones you proposed are smoother and look better, at least under my Linux Desktop. > Perhaps we just need a broader >collection of icons and the packager can choose which one is the most >appropriate one. Why not, although I think we should all try to get something quite similar under all archs/OS so that users get the samereference in mind when invoking pgAdmin III. Regards, Raphaël