[Freeipa-devel] Icon Development

[Adam Young]

I got tripped up recently on the similarity between the the singular and 
plural verisons of the icons:  I saw hosts and host groups side by side 
and thought I was looking at duplicates.  I thought I'd take a stab at 
revising our visual language in reference to singular, plural, and 
nesting of objects.

I've posted my design here.  I couldn't find the original images that 
Kyle used, so please don't laugh too hard at my hand drawn version 
here.  They are not intended to be final cuts, but rather just demos.

http://admiyo.fedorapeople.org/ipa/svg-icons/


Singular is basically unchanged.  We use the same icon for user as we 
did before
Plural (Group, host group)  is the singular arrainged in a circle.  Note 
that netgroups incorporates both user and hosts i
Enrollment of a singular into a plural is shown by an arrow moving into 
the circle
Nesting of one plural inside another plural can be show one of three 
alternatives:

Two circles coming together.  I've drawn it both with and without the 
user that would appear at the intersection of the two groups.  I think 
that with the user is clearer

I've done a version which is just a simple box around the outside edge 
of the icon.  While more abstract, this motif will hopefully jump out 
more to the eye.

At the bottom of the page I've included some of the svg files that I 
used to draw these.  I'm sure we can come up with better that this, but 
to make the discussion collaborative, we'll need to use assets that we 
can share.