The Wrong Path
This evening I start working on TurboGear’s ticket nr. #112. I have already been playing with a design for ToolBox which at least people on the developers list seams to like.
The icons in the opening screen are from the Tango Desktop Project.
Their Icons are really nice, and they have a well though sets of guidelines there as well.
For the ToolBox mockup I took the battery-low icon an edited it a bit to use it for CatWalk.
Kind of dull but it convey the ’something to do with data’ idea.
But hey, I can draw. How difficult can it be to create a sexy icon for CatWalk?
I started to draft some ideas and ended with a model, not exactly a SQLObject model but a model
nevertheless.
I scanned my drawing and fired up illustrator. I was quite happy with the final result.
During all this, in the back of my head I knew that the design wouldn’t work as an icon.
I haven’t event read the Tango guidelines because I knew they will kill my darling.
Reality came back knocking, when I try to save the artwork as SVG. Illustrator CS choked on it, and barfed a message saying:
“Failed to complete the requested action due to an error, wrong path”