Jakub’s new one canvas workflow is totally awesome!
Making various sizes of icons is now a hundred times less frustrating. Especially because [1] Inkscape launches a new instance every time you open an icon, so you can’t copy and paste between windows. [2] the icon directory is a maze when you want to find icons [3] And… whatever, I’ll never have to deal with all that ever again!
This week I will put the 200+ Pidgin icons into one file, and also create links between objects, so I don’t have to update a hundred icons when changing the style of one smiley. This way it’s easier to give the Pidgin icons more love in the future.
If you want to take a look at the details on how it works, check:
git clone git://users.freedesktop.org/~jimmac/tango-lib
Props to Jakub! 
In other news: the Tango Base Set is being relicensed. Pascal wrote a very nice article on the subject. A lot is going on right now, I’ll keep you posted.
One slick bear! Note that inkscape is not exactly snappy, so 200 icons ona single sheet may turn out unrealistic if you use blurs and linked offsets.
that teddy rocks
Banu the bear look great in 256×256. Will GIT 2.24 ship 256×256 size?
Thanks mate.
The Friday after he made the repository live I’ve grabbed Jakub’s ruby script and tried running it with little luck. Realised that I need to ensure the script can find Inkscape, which is bundled as a .app and uses X11 on the Mac. Bugger.
On an unrelated note, Bitstream Vera Serif renders so beautifully as a screen font under OS X, better than even Georgia. Might need to do some baseline and height comparisons between the two to see how well both could be used in a scaling font stack in CSS….
Jones Lee: Yes, it probably will, but I don’t think Teddy here will be part of it.
Reminds me of those Teddy Graham crackers.. Mmm.
Good job man!
Is there git for Windows? I want to pull up the repo, but no git.