ATTN Activity Authors/Owners: Default activity icon colors

[Eben Eliason]

Ticket #7741 [1] points out that inconsistencies in the default colors of
activity icons appear in the filter of the Journal.  This is Sugar's fault,
not yours.  Unfortunately, we can't adjust the APIs as needed in order to
fix this correctly for 8.2, and so we instead humbly request that all
activity icons be bundled with the defaults listed below, to help us hide
our indiscretion until we can do so.  The appropriate defaults, for now,
are:

stroke: #010101
fill: #FFFFFF

Note that it should be easy to fix any icons simply by hand editing the file
to adjust the entity definitions (see
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Making_Sugar_Icons#Defining_Entities_2); it's not
necessary to export the icon again. Thanks for helping us hide our
embarrassment!

- Eben, and the Sugar team

PS.  Note that in the future, even though Sugar will always render icons
appropriately in any context, the recommended default for icons will be a
#666666 stroke (and white fill), so as to match the appearance of the icons
when rendered in Home.  This will, in particular, improve the consistency of
icon appearances of the wiki.  The script linked from the above wiki page
includes a flag to automatically render icons in the (new) defaults, for
future reference.

[1] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7741 (see also:
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7578)
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