[ros-general] Icon submission

[Tom Lee Mullins]

Mikko Tikkanen wrote:

>Good god...
>
>"First off, judge yourself. Are you an experienced graphics
>designer/artist with extensive icon experience? Have you ever made
>icons included in other projects, such as at your day job, an open
>source project, or similar? If you answered "no" to ANY of these
>questions, please do not attempt to submit icons. Save yourself
>humiliation, and save me the difficult task of turning you down. It's
>not because I want to be mean, honestly. If you answered "yes" to all
>of the above questions, please read on."
>
>Is it just me or do anyone else get a _tad_ arrogant image from that?
>This attitude has been a major setback, from the start, on my side and
>it's starting to get under my skin again.
>
>First of all, surely ROS isn't professional project, if it would be it
>would have real funding etc. Besides, open source projects seldom are
>for professionals only. In my point of view any kind of help would be
>appreciated, but it seems that now only professionals can help.
>
>
>
>Well, I think it's time to open up a bit.
>mf: Last time, when I was about to lose it, you persistently you went
>on (in forums and in IRC) how there is no "magical rules" and i.e. on
>icon design and only rules applying are recognition and color use.
>True; Recognition plays a cruicial role and it can be aided with
>proper color use. False; There are other rules that need to be
>considered, these are no less "magical" than say proper color use.
>
>Well, for example, lets see your trashcan design:
>http://www.mufunyo.net/reactos/trashcan.png
>http://www.mufunyo.net/reactos/trashcan2.png
>
>Now, can you tell me what's wrong with that desing? And in this case
>I'm not referring to colors, shapes or anything like that...
>
>
>-mikko
>
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How difficult is it to make an icon? I did one by doing a drawing, 
scanning it and used PMView (there is an OS/2 and a Win version of it; I 
have both) to convert it to an icon. :)

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