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[Stani <spe.stani.be@xxxxxxxxx>]

For me it is a good idea that André Renaults friend help with the
graphics and that Igor reviews his work. Let's first do a test case.
André, ask him to do only one icon (choose yourself) so we can
evaluate if it goes well.

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Robin Mills <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Igor
> This is very helpful.  If Andre's friend wants to help, that'll take some
> work off your back.  However I'd like you to review anything he invents as
> we'd like to extend and compliment your great work.  I hope we don't avoid a
> battle of the graphics!
> Let's see if he volunteers to help.  If he doesn't want oget get involved,
> then we don't need to discuss his contribution!
> Robin
> http://clanmills.com
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 18, 2010, at 23:24 PM, Zrtveni Jarac wrote:
>
> There is still some icons which are borrowed and needs to be replace, like
> Offset, Posterise, Rank, Tamogen, Sketch... Icons needs to be done in one
> style, I still didn't make it to redone all icons. If Renault's friend can
> do exactly copy of style from icons like Canvas, Fit, Round... then it's OK
> that Renault's friend give it a try to make icons which still needs to be
> replaced.
>
> Other option is to give Renault's friend a job create completely new icon
> set, which is huge amount of work. Any way, icons must fit to basic visual
> identity of Phatch.
>
> Best regards,
> Igor Kekeljevic, visual designer
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: André Renault <kestrel.andre@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Stani <spe.stani.be@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: phatch-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sat, July 17, 2010 2:37:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [Phatch-dev] New Phatch Packaging
>
> The status bar doesn't bug me for now. It's just my corrupted copy. I could
> try it tonight (I'm on a PC; I may go to the mall in Angers tonight where
> there's WiFi). I'd like to add my congrats for the graphics. God to see Igor
> did some good work.
>
> Speaking of graphics, I have a friend who's amazing with Photoshop and
> Inkscape. His gallery is www.sycamoreent.webatu.com and he may give us
> better icons than we have now (in terms of HIG compliance). Interested? If
> you are I'll send him an email.
> André Renault
> kestrel.andre@xxxxxxxxx
> defrostedhummingbird@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 19:58, Stani <spe.stani.be@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Robin Mills <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Guys
>>>
>>> I've tried this on a 'clean' Mac in the test lab (a 'virgin unused
>>> version of MacOS 10.5 and 10.6).  Here's what I saw:
>>>
>>> <APP.jpg>
>>>
>>> <PKG.jpg>
>>>
>>> Notice that there is a Status Bar - however Igor's graphics are NOT
>>> clipped.
>>>
>>> If I use Finder/View/Hide Status Bar, the window gets smaller (without
>>> clipping the graphics).  When I close the DMG and open it again, it
>>> remembers not to show the Status Bar.
>>>
>>> I don't think we should spend any more time on this 'clipped' graphics
>>> issue because:
>>>
>>> 1) The clipping seems to be only on Andre's machine.  And even if the
>>> clipping occurs, no information is lost.  This is cosmetic.
>>
>> It looks to me an ideal task to Andre to fix this.
>>
>>>
>>> 2) The graphics look very nice to me as they are.
>>
>> Indeed. Thank you Robin and Igor!
>>
>>>
>>> 3) It has taken up hours already.  There are 'real' issues to be
>>> addressed before 0.28 ships.
>>
>> Sure. We should now concentrate on testing if everything is functional.
>>
>>>
>>> 4) The mechanism to make this work is undocumented by Apple, so making
>>> changes is not simple and has an uncertain outcome.  Changing anything might
>>> lead to more unexpected results and more hours spent on this matter.
>>
>> I'll ask Steve Jobs, next time I see him.
>> Good work!
>> Stani
>>>
>>> Robin
>>>
>>> On 7/14/10 9:49 AM, Robin Mills wrote:
>>>
>>> André
>>>
>>> Here are last night's builds.  I'm going to try to reproduced this today
>>> in the test lab on a couple of 'clean' machines:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://clanmills.com/Phatch28-prerelease/PhatchAPP-20100713-rmills-imac.dmg
>>>
>>> http://clanmills.com/Phatch28-prerelease/PhatchPKG-20100713-rmills-imac.dmg
>>>
>>> Robin
>>>
>>> On 7/13/10 11:25 PM, Zrtveni Jarac wrote:
>>>
>>> Tell Andre to send us some screenshots to see the "damage" which is
>>> caused by a status bar, to discuss what can be done...
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Igor Kekeljevic
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Robin Mills <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: Stani <spe.stani.be@xxxxxxxxx>; Zrtveni Jarac <zrtveni@xxxxxxxxx>;
>>> André Renault <kestrel.andre@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Wed, July 14, 2010 7:54:14 AM
>>> Subject: New Phatch Packaging
>>>
>>> Comments welcome:
>>> http://clanmills.com/articles/macinstallers/
>>>
>>> I'll publish the binaries tomorrow, and fix any suggestions you'd like to
>>> make about the build string.  I used Arial-Italic and used a single black
>>> string for the build information.  I'd like to put it at the bottom -
>>> however it gets hidden on André's machine, which insists on clipping the
>>> graphics and showing a the status bar.  I don't know what it's doing that -
>>> I'm fairly sure it's OK on the machines at work (I'll check that out
>>> tomorrow).
>>>
>>> Robin
>>> http://clanmills.com/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
> <APP.jpg><PKG.jpg>
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