[oats-sig] mulberry: fruit & vegetable topic icons &....

On 01/05/2008, Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd at btinternet.com> wrote:

mulberry: fruit & vegetable topic icons &....

congratulations on some really clean code samples.

two topics have been chunked:
http://www.openicon.org/icon-ark/mulberry/fruit.svgz
http://www.peepo.co.uk/icon-ark/vegetable.svgz

it would be helpful to have topic or category icons.
our users have great difficulties with generalisation, and this is a  
great place to start...
you may have other topic ideas.

http://www.openicon.org is a search engine not a host. (except during  
development)
anyone can register links to topics, provided the files are valid.
please try this out as well as the simple text search by irc or web
search by picture is in development,

the rather crude agglomerator did not barf too heavily.
the agglomerator converts folders of SVGs to a single svgz document.
note that each icon now has a title, when you tab or mouseover each  
one a tooltip gives the name.

Please consider hosting files like the two above.
then people can find you more easily and
you can update and add at your convenience, and users will find out  
very quickly.
please remember to register with openicon each time ~:"

users easily find other graphics like the one they found, which are  
downloaded once and cached.
users will normally copy a link to your resource rather than the data.
there is not much sense in copying around the net, as it makes  
updating more difficult....
reduced traffic and smaller files being posted around the place, etc....

I can only slowly introduce the openicon as it evolves, please bear  
with me.

in the near future:

individuals with very limited vocabularies can register their personal  
category to help others communicate.
these cannot be part of the general search directory as duplications  
would necessarily arise.
however it may be possible to introduce people with similar interests  
and abilities, in real time....

kind regards

~:"

Jonathan Chetwynd

j.chetwynd at btinternet.com
http://www.iconomy.org/

+44 (0) 20 7978 1764

On 2 May 2008, at 19:36, Steve Lee wrote:

> On 01/05/2008, Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> please could you or Garry? send me a few example SVGs before the  
>> batch run?
>
> There is now a zip archive of the SVG symbols available on straight- 
> streets.
> Login and go to the Checkout, it's at the bottom of the page.
>
> Or just grab it directly:
> http://www.straight-street.ukfsn.org/uploaded/bundles/Mulberry1v4_svg.zip
>
> Garry spent some time exporting and checking them this afternoon and
> as a result our conclusion is that they are *much* clearer than the
> WMF versions. That could be the rendering program but we guess it is
> largely down to the format. For me on gnome they look great as tiny
> file thumbnails (in Nautilus) or when viewed full screen.
>
> To update my previous statement, hand correction is only needed when
> exporting to WMF.
>
> -- 
> Steve Lee
> --
> Open Source Assistive Technology Software
> web: fullmeasure.co.uk
> blog: eduspaces.net/stevelee/weblog
>
>
>

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