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Smoother PostgreSQL icons

From
Peter Eisentraut
Date:
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.

Re: Smoother PostgreSQL icons

From
Andreas Pflug
Date:
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

Re: Smoother PostgreSQL icons

From
Jean-Michel POURE
Date:
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

Re: Smoother PostgreSQL icons

From
Peter Eisentraut
Date:
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.

Re: Smoother PostgreSQL icons

From
blacknoz@club-internet.fr
Date:
----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