[Psi-devel] Crystalized Stellar

[Kris Vandebroek]

>> Here's a screenshot of some work I put into stellar. Crystalized Stellar
>> seems to be a fitting name. I have a jisp up at
>> http://www.semanticgap.com/psi/stellar2_roster.jisp . It fits in pretty
>> good with Crystal since I'm using Crystal's overlays and scripts for 
>> it. I
>> can post all of the raw files if anyone wants. I've attached the PNG that
>> gets generated that shows what all of them look like.
> 
> 
> My thoughts on this:
> - I think the icons for chat, msg, ... are now intuitive. Very good.
> 
> I still have the feeling there is something wrong with the colour of the 
> stars (for example for online), which make it not a beautiful icon in my 
> tray and contact list. I have a suggestion for something to try (if you 
> have time for it): Now you have your gradient going from white/light 
> yellow (left-top) to dark brown (right-bottom). This makes it quite 
> "hard" as I said before. Suggestion: take a less dark color and place it 
> in the middle -> hence a gradient going from light yellow on the borders 
> to darker yellow in the middle. (compare a highly zoomed version of this 
> stellar with crystal, crystal also has gradient towards the middle, 
> maybe this is the reason why crystal 'seems' less hard/rough.

=> http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~kristofv/files/crystal_vs_stellar.png
here a shot of the two icons next to each other so everyone can see the 
difference

grtz

Pintail