[Tango-artists] Virtual Machines icons

Rodney Dawes dobey at novell.com
Sat Jan 20 23:34:48 PST 2007


On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 14:55 +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> On Jan 20, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > ...
> > I think just having a branded icon for VMWare or Qemu or whatever, is
> > fine. There's no need to make it overly generic, as it's not an action,
> > or anything. And there's no need in trying to express the 
> > virtualization too much. Think of it this way...
> >
> > "How do you draw a virtual icon?"
> > ...
> 
> Using a dotted outline and/or a semi-transparent fill. :-)

Like the "select region" icon in GIMP, or all of the icons on
insensitive buttons in my toolbars? :)

Doesn't really work.




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