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Need an Icon? #114
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I installed peek in Fedora 25 via the repo and it seems to work pretty good, does just about all I need it to do. Nice little utility.
Anyway, I'm not sure if it's a bug in the packaging but peek doesn't seem to have an icon. If you don't in fact have an icon yet I'd be happy to design you one if you'd like? I'm decent at icon design. I redesigned Pithos's icon a couple years ago. https://pithos.github.io/
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phw commentedon Mar 22, 2017
Peek has an icon, and it should show up. You probably have to run gtk-update-icon-cache or restart the shell to see it (on Arch Linux gtk-update-icon-cache runs automatically after package installation and that usually does the trick).
Anyway, the icon is not too pretty :) See https://github.com/phw/peek/blob/master/data/icons/256x256/com.uploadedlobster.peek.png . It was a quick shot I got from someone, and it served well. But it does not fit well with other icons and doesn't tell much about the app.
If you want to give this a go I am more than happy to replace this icon .
JasonLG1979 commentedon Mar 22, 2017
Must be a bug in the packaging. Neither gtk-update-icon-cache nor restarting the shell shows the icon.
What did you have in mind style wise? Tango, flat?
JasonLG1979 commentedon Mar 22, 2017
Ok, weird. The icon finally showed up after 2 reboots...
phw commentedon Mar 22, 2017
I think Tango like is fine. It should look nice with the icons you find on a typical GNOME or Unity desktop. I found my original request for an icon: https://www.reddit.com/r/freedesign/comments/3zlcqc/request_application_logo_for_open_source_animated/
I still have no good idea about what the icon should show. A thing that changed a bit is, that Peek no longer is exclusively recording only GIFs.
Gnome Shell sometimes has some issues picking icons up, I have experienced this with other software as well. But normally running gtk-update-icon-cache or restarting the shell with
Alt+F2, rdoes the trick for me. Also when I tested the Fedora package in a Virtual Machine it worked right away. I would say if the icons are installed at the right location this is a Gnome glitch.phw commentedon Jun 20, 2017
See also my comment on #115
meetdilip commentedon Aug 31, 2017
How do you want the new icon to look like ? Any pointers ?
bertob commentedon Aug 7, 2018
Hi, Tobias from the GNOME design team here.
We're working on a new icon style for GNOME, which will make it much easier to make app icons because it's simpler, more geometric, and there are fewer sizes. We will update all core GNOME apps' icons to the new style for 3.32 early next year, but some third-party apps are already starting to use them.
If you're interested in a new icon following the new guidelines I'd be happy to provide one.
phw commentedon Oct 22, 2018
@bertob Is your offer still valid? Would be happy to see a new icon for Peek, but lack the skills to fix this myself.
baranpirincal commentedon Oct 22, 2018
Hey @phw , if you still need a logo design for Peek, I can help you. If you have an idea, feel free to share with me.
bertob commentedon Oct 22, 2018
@phw sure is. This is one of the ideas we've been playing with:
I'm not super happy with the small text at the top, but I think as a direction it could work.
gort818 commentedon Oct 22, 2018
@bertob That is pretty awesome!
phw commentedon Nov 1, 2018
@bertob I like this very much, great work. What about just getting rid of the "PEEK" text? Then it would already work well I think.
bertob commentedon Nov 1, 2018
Ok, I think i found something that works:
Unfortunately Github doesn't allow uploading SVG (which is seriously weird, especially given that it does allow PPTX), so I put the hicolor and symbolic in a zip
com.uploadedlobster.peek.zip
phw commentedon Nov 2, 2018
Thanks, this is awesome. Also like the color. What is your recommendation on providing PNG scaled versions for this? If I read the current HIG correctly it is recommended to only provide the SVG, so this should be fine, right?
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bertob commentedon Nov 3, 2018
@phw yes, you don't need any PNGs.
Have a look at this MR as an example of how they new icons are used: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/merge_requests/63/diffs
New application icon
phw commentedon Nov 4, 2018
Thanks, prepared everything in #390
@bertob Are you fine with how I credited you in these changes?
bertob commentedon Nov 4, 2018
@phw can you change my email to tbernard@gnome.org?
Also, the icon was a collaboration with @snwh, @jimmac, and @lapo, so not sure what the best way to attribute credit is.
phw commentedon Mar 13, 2019
Thanks a lot, finally merged
bertob commentedon May 3, 2019
Is there an ETA for a new release?
I'm not sure what else is happening in the code base atm, but I for one would be very happy if it included no changes other than the icon :)
WinEunuuchs2Unix commentedon Jun 9, 2019
Thanks for making this icon everyone. It looks nice on the desktop.