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Stippi's Icon Set

The community has spoken, and as project leader Michael Phipps recently announced at WalterCon 2006, we have a winner for the Best Rated Icon Set Award: the honor goes to Stephan Assmus, for his Stippi icon set. Stippi came in first place with the highest average rating, closely followed in second place by the Honey, Zumi and Mc Clintock icon sets.

With the results of the open rating in hand, there is now work left towards creating the final icon guidelines. We want to remind everyone that the rating was carried out as a means to give the community a chance to make their voice heard, and while you can expect to see a heavy influence from the best rated Stippi icon set, chances are that the final icon set to be used as the default in Haiku will also see an influence from the other submitted icon sets as well.

The overall quality of the submitted icon sets was superb. The valuable contributions from the talented authors of these icon sets will help make a great UI for Haiku, and for that we are endlessly grateful.

On a related note, we are also pleased to announce that Stephan has also implemented support for vector icons in OpenTracker, and his work is expected to be committed to the Haiku repository in the near future. Thanks for your great work Stephan!

Since it appears that there may have been some confusion about the recently announced Haiku Icon Contest , we want to make a few clarifications in order to clear up any doubts about the contest.

The objective of the Haiku Icon Contest is to help develop design guidelines for the eventual creation of a full Haiku Icon Set. Just to give you an idea, the guidelines would look something like the Tango guidelines, but would be specific to Haiku.

In order to achieve this goal, we are accepting artwork sample submissions per the rules outlined in the "Contest Rules" section of the Haiku Icon Contest official page. The submitted artwork will be rated in several areas by means of an online system. The rating system will be open, so anyone interested will be able to participate; take a peak at the beta version rating page to see what the rating system will look like.

During and after the rating period, an open discussion will then be held in the Haiku mailing list, as a brain storming exercise leading to the Haiku icon design guidelines which will provide the base for the creation of the final artwork.

Although the final icon set for Haiku will be the result of a collaborative effort through the rating of the submitted artwork and an open discussion in the Haiku mailing list, the contest will have a "Best Rated Entry", which will be awarded a special recognition certificate from the Haiku project.

For other details about the contest, please refer to the Haiku Icon Contest page, which will be kept up to date with the latest information.

Haiku Icon Contest Summary

• Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2006
• Rating period: September 2 - 23, 2006
• Rating page: To be announced
• Rating tally: Beginning of October