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I'm useless at icons and graphics but I now need a small set of pictures for a new free software project. I need a .xpm icon that scales well to different sizes (up to 64x64). I need website logos that fit the same general theme (and a new colour scheme overall). I'd like some banners (420x20 or similar) that incorporate the same ideas as the logos and icon. Possibly a splash screen as well: .xpm or .png, about 200x160 or so. The general colour scheme of the graphics will be transferred to the rest of the Data Freedom project website. The project is: http://www.data-freedom.org/ and includes the apt repository at http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/packages (I've added a bit to that webpage, including selected links into the repository). As anyone can see from those pages, the project could do with a new set of graphics and colour scheme! The application concerned is to be a front-end to a suite of tools, scripts and configuration files that build on the ideas of ffe: http://ff-extractor.sourceforge.net/ , http://www.data-freedom.org/ and QOF itself (for XML/XSL and SQLite) to provide data query and conversion support that is format-neutral (as far as possible). I'm also upgrading the source of quicklist and probably gaby to Gtk2 to provide interfaces to user-specified data sets. By the time this app is ready, QOF will also support data extraction / storage via gnome-db (which means MySQL, Postgresql, Oracle and others). There are lots of conversion tools, just no way of coordinating them into one process. The app will have to start with an incoming data set and allow the selection or design of an outgoing data set, then provide the user with a system to include, configure and execute existing tools, XSL stylesheets, SQL statements, user scripts and transitional data sets (via QOF) to get from the incoming format to the outgoing format. Once created, each "conversion description" will be cached and (at the user's behest) can be shared with others via the data-freedom suite of tools. Wherever possible, conversions will be bi-directional - utilising comments or other "unused content" in the outgoing format to preserve unused data. Each description will act like a filter or plugin that other users can add to their data-freedom toolset. It's basically a query-based filter-design interface for data currently locked into application-specific text or database storage. A toolset that provides query and conversion access to user data whether or not the application supports an "export" interface of it's own. If anyone is aware of relevant standards, projects etc. or would like to help directly with the programming, it's currently only at the earliest design stage and it would be very useful to thrash out some of the concepts and test the ideas. (It's not intended to support conversion of "big issues" like M$ to/from OOo formats - others are far better placed to do that - it's intended for other, smaller, areas where a bespoke conversion tool isn't worth the effort or where an existing tool doesn't quite do what you want.) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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