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Old 15.01.2010, 13:37
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Default Icon Concept

This has been entered in the bug tracker with slight differences. See #19 in this thread.

I think first, you need to decide how you want to represent various forms of link/file (unchecked, available, not found, unavailable, duplicate, downloading, downloaded, and completed) and the same for a package.

Is a package a folder? Nobody has a trademark on a drawing of a 1/3 cut file folder. The same for use of a ladder as an archive. Circles, arrows, disks, and check-marks are also generic. None of this has a specific source.

If you limit to three primary foreground colors (blue=neutral, green=good, Orange=trouble), you avoid color blindness problems (each must be a different brightness)
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Circle means open middle. Disk means solid.

Once the icons are chosen for states of items,
then a pair of scissors can represent deletion.

The space for icons in the table is 16 pixels high.
The Action icons can be 32 pixels, so there should be space.

Code:
               Link/File      Package       Archive Unit

unchecked      Blue
               Circle         N/A            N/A

available      Green          Green          Green
               Circle         Circle         Ladder

not found      Orange         Orange         Orange
               Circle         Circle         Ladder

temporarilly   Blue           N/A            N/A
unavailable    Disk

exact          Orange         N/A            N/A
duplicate      Disk

mirror         Blue           N/A            N/A
downloading    Hand Mirror

mirror         Orange         N/A            N/A
redundant      Hand Mirror

downloading    Green          Green arrow    Green arrow
               Down Arrow     on Folder      on Ladder

download       Blue           Blue arrow     Blue arrow
temp. failure  Down Arrow     on Folder      on Ladder

download       Orange
perm. failure  Down Arrow     on Folder      on Ladder

downloaded     Blue
               Check Mark     on Folder      on Ladder

completed      Green
               Check Mark     on Folder      on Ladder
If you like the ideas and the parallelism, then let me know.
I can draw these for you in Photoshop. I would draw them 128x128 and then resize as appropriate (the reduction creates some anti-aliasing that makes it look nicer). The originals would be PSD to preserve layers (such as for adding scissors, hands, usw.).

Saving as PNG would be no problem.

Last edited by drbits; 02.02.2010 at 08:07.
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