| Subject | : | My Modified ecs 2.0 desktop |
| Author | : | DavidG |
| Date | : | 09 Jul, 2006 on 19:14 |
| Hi guys I thought I would show you my modified eCS 2.0 desktop after I had applied all my modified graaphics and themes. The books (folders) are from my "books" itheme. The system setup icons are ones that I created. The trashcan is one I submitted to the XWP development group for possibly inclusion in the next XWP release. |
| Subject | : | Re:My Modified ecs 2.0 desktop |
| Author | : | Ben Dragon |
| Date | : | 10 Jul, 2006 on 16:21 |
| Thanks for giving us a glimpse of what eCS 2.0 looks like, David. I like your icons on the whole. I have a couple of comments. I think the *.INI data file icon is nice, but a bit plain. Your hard dive icons are great! With your book icons the front detailing is a bit lost in the book background on some of them for example, Internet and Local Network to name two. The trash can is nice... and recently polished. I think the CMD icons have needed a lot of work... all the ones previously available for OS/2 that is. Yours are the best I've seen to date. It's hard to make confident statements though, as some detail is lost in the image compression. This is clearly seen in the Decoration Scheme Palette. The powder blue gumps with the high contrast center on the title bar doesn't work against a black background, but that's a matter for personal preference I think, so I won't mention it here. Thanks again and I hope you find my comments useful. --- ![]() |
| Subject | : | Re:My Modified ecs 2.0 desktop |
| Author | : | tex |
| Date | : | 11 Jul, 2006 on 18:05 |
| The INI icon is the one found in FM/2. For some reason, it becomes the INI default icon for eCS 2.0. Your are correct that some of the front detailing is lost on some of the book icons. I am not sure of an easy way around this. You will be amazed at how easy it is to recognize the icons once the mind adjusts. I just received word that my trashcan icons were rejected for XWP which is fine. It is a shame the trashcan icons are the only icons one cannot replace on the eCS desktop manually. I myself refer what I created. I too like my cmd icons. However, you would be surprised how many like the original eCS angled cmd icons. I just wanted to create something different from the cmd default icons. The Decorative Scheme Palette is the one of the icons in my picture that DOES come with eCS 2.0. It is not my creation. Any of the system setup icons with the rounded corners are of my creation. They did not come with eCS 2.0 Most can be downloaded from Hobbes. However, not all system setup icons found on Hobbes are my latest. Maybe when I get time, I can upload a more up-to-date package. Some I modifed as per suggestions by Paul for inclusion in the possible next release of XWP. I am now experimenting using briefcases for folders. What makes eCS unique and yet labor intensive to work with is how the folder icons can be created. In windows, you use ONLY one icon for all folders including the open and close folders. The icon may contain different size icons. In eCS, you have an open and close folder. Each open and close folder usually contains 4 different and unique size icons. So say for one icon such as the internet folder, one actually has to create 8 different icons. Each program can have its own unique folder icon. It would be so simple to create a scheme using the Windows method, and believe me, I thought about trying it for a scheme. Essential, the basic default folder icon would be used for all folder icons. The only way to tell a program folder from another program folder would be the text. David |
| Subject | : | Re:My Modified ecs 2.0 desktop |
| Author | : | DavidG |
| Date | : | 12 Jul, 2006 on 01:18 |
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| Subject | : | Re:My Modified ecs 2.0 desktop |
| Author | : | Ben Dragon |
| Date | : | 12 Jul, 2006 on 04:40 |
What if the books were 50% transparent? Or washed out, or crosshatched? Or if they were 3/4 view with a bookend that contained the details?
The contents of the can were great! I suspect the super clean gradient on the can itself was the cause of reservations.
I would rate the 3/4 view eCS cmd icons as second. They're what I normally use, but I'd use yours if I had them. Also, as a suggestion, make a set of yours 3/4 view.
Believe me. I know full well. I've made bunches over the years, (none of them with your quality), and it never ceases to amaze me just how bloody long it takes!
I'm not sure that's a plus, though. I mean, obviously it is from an icon makers point of view but from a user's POV I do prefer OS/2s method. Really, eCS needs some code built in that can resize the full sized icons on the fly so that only two icons need be made, (for folders, one for progs).
Is there someone out there that's sh*t hot with REXX that can make some code that can auto-resize your full-sized icons and save you some work? The GBM modules that are current, may be of use there somehow. It's a bit beyond my abilities, but if it can be done, OS/2 has some of the best REXX coders out there... just a thought. --- ![]() |