icons for drupal late night note collection

A late-night-cant-sleep write up of the idears about these icons n stuff
Now this text file have been laying at my blackbook since the flight home from oscms07, so i guess its about time to get it online or throw it out ....

Just to be clear this is a collection of thoughts and ideas and some of the work i have done on my own little icon set (and module)
They are posted in this uncomplete & filled with spellingerrors and shit now- cause i have been f*cking busy the last month and before were in barcelona saying cheers I thought it would be sweet to get this out. So 'ere we go

Theme

well hmm offcouse the icons must look as good as Salma hayek with the garland theme.
16 * 16px size just to keep it in a good size - and maybe some 32*32 for headings etc?
Use colors that blend in with the garland theme, but also looks good in a black background
offcourse well have to create other themes along the road, but first lets create one that works for a basic drupal site.

Icons drupal need

Well first up ill think we need to catagorize which basic icons we need to create for the different elements of drupal (when first the base is up its "easy" to create all the similar)

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Drupal elements
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Block:


Module:

Template:

Menu:

User:

this sucks big time - the simple figure jeff did with the zen theme kicks ass gotta rip it ->

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content / nodes
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nodes:
[?] content type
cck
categories / taxonomy
comment
attachment
book
[?] input format

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Website elements
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feed
feed-aggregator
[?] forum
image
images
search
[?] poll
[?] statics

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actions
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edit
delete
[?] cancel
[?] sticky
[?] frontpage
[?] ok
[?] error
[?] warning
[?] workflow (1-2-3 ?)
lock
information
help
update

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navigation
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standard drupal thingies
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[?] menu collapsed
[?] menu expanded
[?] menu leafs
[?] sort asc
[?] sort desc

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admin stuff
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Content management
Site building
User management
Site configuration
Logs
config / prefernce

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Views
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views
views fields
header
footer
empty text
[?] panels

How to implement em in drupal

A simple stylesheet would be the easiest way: its easy to overwrite in the theme, and doesnt clutter up the html.
One of the things a modul schould do is to add some ids etc to the elements that needs icons, and offcourse take care of the language versions .... wow i allready did that how convinient ;)

Naming

Lets do it our own way!
The idea about using some existing namesceme is in my opinion nonsens, i know that some *nix geeks might find it convinient to use a existing naming scheme, but geeeez - were gonna clown around in the naming for the icons.
Lets call the icons what they do in drupal, and not what it does in *insert you own favorite OS / desktop system*
If the icon is created for a special module i would propose a scheme like MODULE_ACTION.png
view module: view_footer.png, view_header.png, view_fields.png ...
menu: menu_collapsed.png, menu_expanded.png, menu_leaf.png
sorting: sort_asc.png, sort_desc.png

Other D. projects & writing

Now that im not the only one kicking pixels for the drupal world domination!

another module called iconofy -wtf! ;) http://my.opera.com/thePanz/blog/drupal-icone-nel-pann-di-amministrazione
content icons for panels from yoroy: http://drupal.org/node/149375

Stevens comment http://morten.dk/blog/mortendk/iconyfi-alpha-pixels-dot-03#comment-478
and as always hes right

nates lullabot icons http://www.lullabot.com/articles/free_gpl_icons_lullacons_pack_1

links

icon naming the *nix way http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-lates...
maybe theres some good ideas ;)

Firefox browser ui: http://kmgerich.com/2006/07/11/firefox-browser-ui-artwork-released/

Tango icon guidelines: http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines
Some good guidelines

...damn its 2:35 copenhagen time the king of dk gotta sleep now, and dream about Sex Drüpal & Rock n Roll