Provide missing graphics

[jimmac]

I think the number of default sounds should be kept at a minimum. Currently the fold is somewhere at the 6 item mark. I would suggest de-emphasizing additional sounds by providing them in a more compact list below, perhaps using a symbolic icon or no icon at all. This would also help avoiding issues like this one.

For now, Blanket should at least not present broken images, so it will need:

• Waves
• Stream
• Birds

[jimmac]

Concept for the waves:

[jimmac]

Stream is a little less successful for now...

[rafaelmardojai]

Thanks for working on this!

We're also missing icons for Train, Boat and City (see #50).

I would suggest de-emphasizing additional sounds by providing them in a more compact list below, perhaps using a symbolic icon or no icon at all.

Yeah, definitely I will go that way.

[rafaelmardojai]

I really like the Waves concept.

Both Stream concepts also look cool, and I can't decide 😂.

[jimmac]

Not quite the bird you'd like to fall asleep to:

[rafaelmardojai]

Not quite the bird you'd like to fall asleep to:

But it fits with the geometric style 😅.

I like it, but what if it has a friend?

[jimmac]

While working on these, I've grown convinced that the fullcolor icon style is not appropriate for these. I think the symbolic icons would be more appropriate. If you're really into a larger illustration, I bet hairline/outline style would feel way more elegant.

[rafaelmardojai]

While working on these, I've grown convinced that the fullcolor icon style is not appropriate for these. I think the symbolic icons would be more appropriate. If you're really into a larger illustration, I bet hairline/outline style would feel way more elegant.

Yes, you are right. And the outline style will help to have a bit more detail compared to a regular symbolic icon.

My only concern is if this style will feel out of place in GNOME.

[jimmac]

There are always special cases. Considering these to be image assets (perhaps even animated) and not icons, I think it's a area where Blanket can be a great first test bed. There's some experimental Lottie support being worked on by the gtk developers, but for now I'll take a look at producing some 64x64px nominal static SVGs.

[haggen88]

some ideas... concepts.zip

[rafaelmardojai]

There are always special cases. Considering these to be image assets (perhaps even animated) and not icons, I think it's a area where Blanket can be a great first test bed. There's some experimental Lottie support being worked on by the gtk developers, but for now I'll take a look at producing some 64x64px nominal static SVGs.

Go ahead, I think we can do something cool here. Definitely animated icons will look awesome in the future.

[jimmac]

The one thing before figuring out the animated icons might be to de-emphasize the inactive sound icons with something like opacity: 0.8;

[jimmac]

Alternatively having them blue when active would be better, but I'm not sure it's doable without duplicating assets.

[rafaelmardojai]

Alternatively having them blue when active would be better, but I'm not sure it's doable without duplicating assets.

There's no way to make them "colorable" with CSS like normal symbolic icons? I suppose they can't because they are made with strokes.

[jimmac]

Strokes should be fine, worst case they can be converted to outlines. I'm not sure renaming to -symbolic will magically make it work though.

Edit: It seems to work. Patch incoming.

[archisman-panigrahi]

Can we have the pastel effect (as in the attached images) instead of just the blue outline? It would look way cooler.

@jimmac Maybe you can draw by hand (I am assuming that the "concept" images were hand drawn), take a picture and then convert them to svg (various tools can do that). They certainly look better than the outlines.