Artwork/EchoCursors

Echo cursor theme

Goals

• create new cursor theme for Fedora
• create cursor NamingSpec
• make it consistent with new Echo icon theme
• make three different sizes: 24x24 36x36 48x48
• make dark and light version
• make left-handed and right-handed version

Current Status

• collecting ideas - please post your ideas to the Sketches section below
• to do:
• prepare new page similar to EchoDevelopment - need naming specs and cursor descripitons - DONE: Artwork/EchoCursors/Development
• MartinSourada - I have found a draft cursor-spec at freedesktop.org .
• MartinSourada - I made a list of Bluecurve cursors. It's a early draft, feel free to edit it: File:Artwork EchoCursors bluecurve-list.txt bluecurve-list] . References (positions in 24x24 grid) are to this image: Bluecurve-24-1.png
• MartinSourada - I made a new list of cusors. There are compared freedesktop.org cursor-specs with KDE/QT and GNOME/GTK. At the bottom there is a list with cursors not mentioned in freedesktop.org spec, but present in File:Artwork EchoCursors bluecurve-list.txt bluecurve-list] . See File:Artwork EchoCursors cursor-list.txt cursor-list] . We should make a wiki page with a table based on this list where we prepare list of cursors we need to create with default names, descriptions and symbolic links (when the same cursor has different names).
• MartinSourada - Created new wiki page for NamingSpec .
• prepare script for building a cursor theme from cursor images

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Sketches

[[Image:Artwork_EchoCursors_MartinSourada - arrow: File:Artwork EchoCursors LL arrow48a.png File:Artwork EchoCursors LL arrow48a.svg LL SVG] File:Artwork EchoCursors LD arrow48a.png File:Artwork EchoCursors LD arrow48a.svg LD SVG] File:Artwork EchoCursors RL arrow48a.png File:Artwork EchoCursors RL arrow48a.svg RL SVG] File:Artwork EchoCursors RD arrow48a.png File:Artwork EchoCursors RD arrow48a.svg RD SVG]

• goal: 3D look, lighting as in Echo icons, easily distinguishable the point where the cursor points
• to do: further polishing of a shape and colour, adding shadow, changing size to fit well with additions like + or ? or throbber, making smaller versions
• testing: if you'd like to test the cursor I have built dark left-handed version with xcursorgen. Put File:Artwork EchoCursors arrow arrow] to /usr/share/Echo/cursors/arrow (note that arrow is file, not folder), create symlink left_ptr to "./arrow" (without the quotes) and in gconf go to /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse and set cursor_theme to Echo. It should work, if you use instead of "Echo" whatever else theme you have installed or, maybe even if you put it into ~./icons/theme_name/cursors/arrow but I didn't try it. If you try it, please report whether it works or not.

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BenArnold:

Paper-Based Sketches:

[[Image:Artwork_EchoCursors_BA-Arrows-Mar21.jpg]

• mainly 3D-ish ones

• top left and one below: built up of basic primitives, second more square

• top-right block: thinner plain, wouldn't really work due to lack of clarity during use

• bottom-left: more Echoey, inc. outline; I see this as being green for some reason, reminds me of the redo icon.

• bottom-right: with the middle-left; other cursors to build up this set, double pointer is an alternative for hand and a no entry. This set are like folded paper, the bottom-left side having a little shading to fit with Echo lighting.

Digital Mockups:

	Arrow:	Hourglass:	Resize:
File:Artwork EchoCursors Cone (preview)	File:Artwork EchoCursors BA-Cube-Arrow-48.png	File:Artwork EchoCursors BA-Cube-Hourglass-48.png	File:Artwork EchoCursors BA-Cube-Resize-48.png
Cone (files)	File:Artwork EchoCursors BA-Cube-Arrow-48.svg LL SVG]	File:Artwork EchoCursors BA-Cube-Hourglass-48.svg LL SVG]	File:Artwork EchoCursors BA-Cube-Resize-48.svg LL SVG]

• looks quite fine and detailed: may work given the sharpness of the Echo icons but needs thinker lines for clarity? Will it get lost in the screen or wallpaper?