Icon needed for Mnemosyne flash card application

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I use a tool called Mnemosyne, which is an excellent flash-card application
to help with long-term memory. However, its icon is pretty messy and
distracting (especially in smaller sizes), and doesn't seem to fit with the
palette of the rest of my desktop. Mnemosyne is included in the Ubuntu
repositories--would you be up to making an icon for it?

I've attached the current icons.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
gnome-colors 3.2 on Ubuntu 9.04

Original issue reported on code.google.com by matthew.pirocchi on 11 May 2009 at 7:18

Attachments:

• mnemosyne-icons.tar.gz

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Would a generic flash card icon work? I already have some in gnome-*/*/devices/ 
If
they fit the application's intended usage (and the app doesn't use hardcoded 
icons),
then that would make it easy and quick to add an icon for Mnemosyne.

Original comment by perfectska04 on 12 May 2009 at 10:26

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A generic icon would work fine, however, I did not see any in 
gnome-*/*/devices/.
I think maybe you are thinking of this: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory,
but by flash card, I mean this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashcard.

Original comment by matthew.pirocchi on 16 May 2009 at 12:36

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Oh wow, yes. My mistake. I thought it was an application for managing flash 
memory
cards, not actual flash cards for learning.

I guess I'll have to take a look around and see if I can come up with a 
suitable icon
metaphor for the application.. Perhaps I can get some ideas from similar apps. 
I'll
leave this open until I come up with something.

Original comment by perfectska04 on 16 May 2009 at 1:35

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Here's one idea for a metaphor:
It seems like some flash card applications use some form of stack of cards as 
their
icon. For example:
http://sourceforge.net/dbimage.php?id=152532 ("Genius", the icon is in the title
bar--only shot I could find)
http://granule.sourceforge.net/granule-big.png ("Granule")

Granted, granule's icon is pretty ugly, but perhaps this metaphor is 
simple/clean
enough to work. Just an idea!

Original comment by matthew.pirocchi on 24 May 2009 at 5:37

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Original comment by perfectska04 on 25 Jun 2009 at 6:56

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