[Clipart] hacked roadmap and palm icons

[Jon Phillips]

On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 08:10 -0700, Open Clip Art Library Feedback Form
wrote:
> Name: shawn giese
> E-mail: shawngiese at bluemail.ch
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> First off, cool project and nice graphics.

Thanks!

> Secondly, your roadmap looks to be a list of advertising links.

Fixed.

> Thirdly, I have started compiling the openclipart into a currently
> 2,000 icon library for the PalmOS.  I don't know if you'd be
> interested in including it in a distribution or if it would be better
> off elsewhere.  The main reasons are:
> a) not all of the clipart looks good when tiny
> b) some names are duplicated so I have not spent the time to check
> and doublecheck things by folder
> c) they are all grouped in one icon file
> d) they are in a palmos format for standard icons but then there are
> many icon formats and such and it may not be easy for you to show
> some and then not others
> e) my collection just did a simple resizing of the pngs.  Inkscape
> could probably be scripted to give a cleaner output though I do not
> know how

That sounds like a great idea however our collection is stored as SVG
vector graphics. Thus, if you would like to submit your collection, the
files must be in SVG.

> I just thought that offering icon formats, in some way would bring
> more attention and use of the Open Clip Art collection.

Yes, this is a great idea.

However, we need to also think about scaling issues, how to offer clear
versions of graphics for lower resolution displays, and how to
technically solve this behind the scenes. Does anyone on the list have
any ideas about this?

Thanks Shawn!

Jon

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