Some pointers on what to do with the icons

[GijsTimmers]

Sam has recently sent us a preview of the icon set for kotnetcli. Jo and I think that it looks great. We need to make a list of preferred icons, so that Sam has a good idea where his efforts are most needed.

Feel free to edit this list at any time.

We should have:

• A banner for README.md
• A normal computer application icon in SVG format. We will be using this tool to generate app icons from it.
• A monochrome ('black-white-gray') icon for Unity' and Gnome's top bar, able to show connection status:
  • Disconnected
  • Connecting
  • Connected
• A Windows traybar icon: low-priority
• A Mac traybar icon: maybe this can be just the same as the monochrome Unity/Gnome icon. As we don't own a Mac, we don't know if this looks good or not.
• An app icon for Android. Low-priority, as we can always use https://romannurik.github.io/AndroidAssetStudio/icons-launcher.html

For the 'Connecting' icon: it would be nice if the two K's in the monochrome icon could alternatingly switch from black to white indicate that kotnetcli is trying to connect. As soon as the connection is succesful, stop switching colour and have the front K in the colour black, and the back K in the colour white. We are not sure on how to indicate the 'Disconnected' status: maybe have two black K's? Or two grey K's? Feel free to put in some thoughts here.

[jovanbulck]

thx @samgielis

[jovanbulck]

Note on the monochrome icon: we can't use pure black (at least in Gnome) as the background is black; the icon should use white and (a single tint of) gray, as shown in the screenshot below

[GijsTimmers]

Good catch!

[samgielis]

consider all of this done - in the next week(s) or so :)

[GijsTimmers]

You're the best!

[GijsTimmers]

@samgielis do you mind if I use the currently available icons for kotnetcli Android app development? I received the 1000x1000 icon and banner by email from Jo. Of course, I will mention your name and Github page in the About section.

[samgielis]

@GijsTimmers no, by all means, use them! Sorry I never got to creating those icons. Do you have them covered or could you still use some help?

[GijsTimmers]

Thank you. The stuff we have right now will do for a while.

[jovanbulck]

I created an ascii version of the iconic double key - for kotnetcli should not forget its roots as a command line application. Inspired by pacman --version, I figured we could display the ascii logo on the left when invoking kotnetcli --version. Here we go:

jo@Giedion[0]::~$ cat ~/Desktop/kotnetcli_ascii_logo.txt 
   __
 __\ \                 kotnetcli v1.3.0-dev
 \ \\_\___             Copyright (C) 2014-2016 Kotnetcli Development Team
  \   V  / __          (https://github.com/GijsTimmers/kotnetcli)
   \  `\<</ /
    \  _\_\<<          This program may be freely redistributed under
     \_\ `_\_\         the terms of the GNU General Public License.
        \_\

jo@Giedion[0]::~$ 

Looks better in a fixed-width white-on-black terminal imo:

I'll open a pull request for this, once the GPL re-licensing #98 is completed.

[GijsTimmers]

That's so awesome and so linuxy! thanks!