[racket-dev] [racket] DrRacket needs work

Moving to dev.

16x16 is tiny! But I can see why. I've attached my current toolbar, 
which uses all 22px icons. They look a bit big.

I'm doing more than just replacing icons. We need abstractions. Not 
having them is partly why DrRacket's icon set looks old and 
inconsistent. So here's what I've been working on.

1. SVG icon sources in icons/svg, organized in sub-directories.

2. icons/svg/render-png.rkt, which renders all the SVG sources at 
different heights (16, 24, 32, 48), in further sub-directories.

3. icons/svg/load-icon.rkt, which contains functions that make it easy 
to load icons: it builds file names from info like style and height.

The last also has functions for composing icons at runtime, and 
abstractions for common compositions. For example, this would make a 
blue, diffuse version of the wide macro stepper icon:

    (icon-ht-append (load-icon "misc" "hash-quote-diffuse" height)
                    (step-icon "blue" "diffuse" height))

And `step-icon' builds an icon by appending a triangle and a bar.

Today, I'm going to change render-png.rkt to colorize icons by replacing 
certain named gradients in the SVG sources.

Critiques or suggestions?

Also, I have questions.

1. Do icons have to be loaded with 'png/mask? Combining masked bitmaps 
is kind of a pain.

2. What would you (or anyone) think of using Inkscape or another SVG 
renderer as part of the build? Would it be better to not require it, and 
just have anybody who changes the SVG sources re-run render-png.rkt?

Neil T

(Jay, before you get anxious about the FLOPS deadline, I've been working 
on that, too. But this has been keeping my mind off being nauseated. I'm 
just thankful I'm sick now instead of on Thanksgiving, like my little 
brother. Hopefully, by now he can enjoy the piece of donut-cherry pie I 
sent home with his wife.)

On 11/27/2011 12:59 AM, Robby Findler wrote:
> It has to be 16x16, not 24x24, sadly.
>
> I wouldn't mind if you committed something that was just the checkmark
> and the right size in collects/icons/syncheck.png.
>
> Robby
>
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Neil Toronto<neil.toronto at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I had some hours to kill today, and I figured I could come up with
>> replacements for the toolbar icons at least.
>>
>> Neil T
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: toolbar.png
Type: image/png
Size: 8372 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev/archive/attachments/20111127/7a7780ca/attachment.png>