[Tango-artists] Session icons

[Manu Cornet]

Hello !

I am new to designing icons (and new to this list), but I am also a
developper for Ubuntu, and right now trying to enhance the "Close
session" dialog.

This dialog will need five new icons, for Shut Down, Reboot, Hibernate,
Suspend and Log Out actions. The basic idea is to let them have
different shapes but also very distinguishable colors : red for Shut
Down, orange for Reboot, blue for Hibernate, green for Log Out and maybe
purple for Suspend.

I have already designed three of these icons, trying to follow Tango
guildelines, and I am willing to make them better so that maybe some day
they can be useful for the Tango project ? Here are the icons (PNG and
SVG) :

	http://www.manucornet.net/GNOME/session_icons/

My questions are simple :

* What about them ? Is there anything I can do to make them more
"Tango-compliant" ? I realize that they probably still need a bit of
polishing before getting real, final icons of the right size.

* Do you have any idea for Hibernate and Suspend icons [1] ? I thought
I'd make the Hibernate one blue because it could look like an ice cube
or something, but other ideas are very welcome. I also thought of making
one of these two have something like "Zzz" in it, but some people think
users without any "cartoon" culture wouldn't necessarily understand.

Well that's it, hope I can design nice icons and help the Tango project,
I really love how all these icons look so far !

Cheers,
Manu Cornet

[1] The difference between those being : suspend just lets the computer
"sleep" while its RAM is still on and still holds information ;
hibernate saves the RAM content onto the hard disk and shuts the
computer down -- thus, an hibernated computer does not use any energy at
all -- and then restores it into the RAM when booting again.