[Tango-artists] Questions about submitting stuff

[Simon Otter]

Andreas Nilsson wrote:

> Simon Otter wrote:
>
>> Well, I've made an attempt on creating an icon for the suite.
>> I tried to make it look as much tango as I possible could.
>> I just wanted to check if you guys had any opinions about
>> it and if it is okay, tell me how to submit it to CVS and stuff.
>>
>> A suggestion for an user-offline icon.
>> http://simon.otter.se/vector/tango/user-offline.svg
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
> Hello Simon!
> Nice work. The body look a bit inconsitent with the other user-icons 
> have 
> (http://tango-project.org/static/cvs/tango-icon-theme/scalable/actions/mail-reply-all.png 
> and 
> http://tango-project.org/static/cvs/tango-icon-theme/scalable/actions/contact-new.png 
> ...do we have a bigger shot of these guys anywhere?), but other than 
> that I like it. It is good that you use the same symbol as in the 
> offline.
> Ryan Collier did some experiments with shapes (circle, star etc.) 
> similar to the status icons in google talk and ichat, I really like 
> that idea and perhaps you can give that a try as Ryan seems busy with 
> other stuff at the moment.
>
> As for adding stuff to the set, the easiest way to submit artwork to 
> the tango-icon-theme or tango-art-libre is to do what you already did. 
> Send a e-mail to this and provide a link to the artwork. CVS access is 
> given to contributors that submit a lot of work and that the 
> maintainer can trust won't screw things up (I got cvs access though, 
> however I lost my ssh-key shortly afterwards...perhaps it was for the 
> best :) )
> Also not that tango use the sizes 16x16, 22x22 and scalable, so you 
> need to draw your icon in all three sizes.
>
> Thanks for the effort this far. Great to have more artists on board!
> - Andreas

Thank you. I shall have a look at the google icons and return when I've 
polished my piece (that sounded dirty :)

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