Re: Ideas requested for what icons should look like.
Roedy Green wrote:
It is amazing how much time you can chew up looking through thousands
of images on images.google.ca for ideas for a handful of icons.
I thought I would ask what you would use for the following icons:
I am looking for some fairly small icons to label links with something
that indicates where they will take you.
1. a summary or precis text file.
2. an html manual/documentation
3. an Subversion repository
4. a Java code listing
5. a screenshot (this is especially tough to search for. You find
screenshots not an icon to represent a screenshot).
6. a PAD file (xml program description) see
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/pad.html
7. a zip file program distributable download bundle of source, jars, C
executables etc.
8. link to a page containing an Applet you can run without installing
it.
My fallback strategy will be to just implement something, even if just
a tiny coloured square, and over time replace them as I casually run
across something that strikes me as better than what I have already.
I generally search all the icons which are supplied with Gnome/KDE desktops.
These are very well designed icons. You can very often find suitable icons in
there, or at least an idea of a good design. If you have a Linux installation
you should be able to find them somewhere under /usr/share/icons, applications
may also install their own icons and their might well be other places to
search. If you don't have a Linux install you might find them on a Linux live
CD, or maybe at the Gnome or KDE websites.
It's my understanding that they are distributed under the GPL which means you
must not have a more restrictive licence than the GPL on anything which
includes them in its distribution. I think that that would, unfortunately,
preclude their use on your website, or software distributed via your website,
due to the political restrictions on that site. But if you chose to distribute
software using the GPL then you should be ok. IANAL.
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Nigel Wade