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Havyck
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Posted - Jan 28 2004 :  3:15:03 PM  Show Profile
It should have that glassy, shiny polished glass icon look that many new icons have. The crudy old tomato takes away from the pinache of a new build. In my view!

Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war...

support
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Posted - Jan 28 2004 :  3:27:00 PM  Show Profile
We are restricted by the color palate of IDE.

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Stephen
Tomato Guru

United Kingdom
781 Posts

Posted - Jan 28 2004 :  3:40:36 PM  Show Profile
Are we talking about the tomato on the VS splash screen? What I don't like about it is that it's stripy, rather than the redness varying continuously. But I guess if you're limited to a fixed pallette, that's understandable.

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WannabeeDeveloper
Tomato Guru

Germany
775 Posts

Posted - Jan 30 2004 :  02:26:00 AM  Show Profile
On my end the "VA-View Tomato Icon" does look like a 4-year-olds drawing with a palette of 8 colors. Not as bright and good-looking as the Splash-Screen-Icon...

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Darren
Tomato Guru

USA
105 Posts

Posted - Jan 30 2004 :  08:28:03 AM  Show Profile
New rule : It's illegal to criticize without providing alternative artwork. :)
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WannabeeDeveloper
Tomato Guru

Germany
775 Posts

Posted - Jan 30 2004 :  11:52:17 AM  Show Profile
Oh, come on, wanna have a look at the symbol in VA-View?
Here you go:


And here you have my alternative artwork suggestion:



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support
Whole Tomato Software

5566 Posts

Posted - Jan 30 2004 :  2:08:55 PM  Show Profile
The symbol in the VA View must use a 16-color palette provided by the IDE. We are fortunate in that two of the colors in that palette are red (bright and dark.)

Check out all the icons in the IDE toolbars. They all use the same palette.

The icon in the Help|About tab of VS.NET gets to use a different palette.

We will consider changing the fancy tomato to the one-color version, or the limited-color version in the IDE splash, for sake of consistency.

(Changed palate to palette.)

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Edited by - support on Jan 30 2004 3:07:26 PM
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Uniwares
Tomato Guru

Portugal
2322 Posts

Posted - Jan 30 2004 :  2:31:24 PM  Show Profile
quote:
Originally posted by support

Check out all the icons in the IDE toolbars. They all use the same palate.


http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=palate
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Uniwares
Tomato Guru

Portugal
2322 Posts

Posted - Jan 30 2004 :  3:15:59 PM  Show Profile
Come on guys, you are able to make the IDE shine in all colors like a xmas tree and now you tell us you cant make a it show a nice high-color icon (which is btw supported by the OS)? No way.
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