Highlighter icon doesn't fit in with style

[Vadim Peretokin]

See attachment - the offending yellow/blue icon really stands out. Should find an artist to draw us a better one...

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

I reused the icon from xournal. I'll ask Pascal Grochol if he has a good idea.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Ok. I've asked Richard Querin <http://blog.rfquerin.org/> too (
http://blog.rfquerin.org/), he draws very nice stuffs with Inkscape:
http://screencasters.heathenx.org/

[Richard Querin (rfquerin)]

I've given it a try. Here's the same screenshot with the proposed revision to the highlighter icon. I've also attached the 16x16 png file for the icon as well.

[Richard Querin (rfquerin)]

Here's the 16x16 icon file by itself. I wasn't sure how to attach both to one message (a complete Launchpad newbie here if you couldn't tell). ;)

Btw - how do I get to the screenshot editor? I've installed what I think is the latest dev version, but selecting the editor does nothing.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

I think that's quite nice, but the yellow tip is a bit too sharp. How about
toning down the black outline to make it look smoother?

Also, you should able to access the editor after taking a screenshot and
pressing 'Edit' in the toolbar, or doing Screenshot -> Edit - like this:
http://www.ubuntu-pics.de/bild/16506/screenshot_85_v8HIat.png

Also, tip - you can reply to launchpad bugs right via email.

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

Hi Richard,

i like your draft as well.

You can use the experimental branch of Shutter to get the most bleeding edge version:
bzr branch lp:~mario-kemper/shutter/experimental

If you are using Ubuntu you can also use our Testing-PPA to install a recent copy:
https://launchpad.net/~shutter-testing-team/+archive/ppa

Thanks very much for your effort.

Greetings
Mario

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

I've now committed your new icon and it looks nice (see attachment).

Is this bug ready to be closed now or is there still some work to do?

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

You can mark the report as so, but if Richard improves the icon a bit, lets
update it.

[Richard Querin (rfquerin)]

I'll take Vadim's point about the outline and have another look at it. I had trouble trying to separate the tip from the highlighter "ink" behind it. Maybe it can be toned down just a touch. If I think it's an improvement, I'll post it here.

[Richard Querin (rfquerin)]

Here's a version that is very slightly more subtle so the separation of the tip from the ink behind it is not so drastic but still apparent.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

I think that's quite good. Thank you!