I agree--menu entries with icons are very important for a smooth introduction to the linux audio jungle. I will work on GIMPing some and get them to you. Link tim hall wrote: >Last Sunday 10 April 2005 09:04, Kai Vehmanen was like: > > >>All those apps and not ecasound... where did my marketing go wrong? ;) >> >> > >There's a kind of user blind spot, due to ecasound being a command-line app. >People only tend to think of trying it if they know it or specifically prefer >command-line tools. This is why I have pushed for ecasound -c to have a menu >entry (under Debian at least) and I'm now trying to think up a suitable icon >or two to go with it. Experienced users tend to know where their tools are >and don't mind, possibly even like the fact that it comes in a plain brown >wrapper. The software and documentation are wonderful, but it doesn't leap >off the shelf at you. > >Several Linux Audio packages lack icons, so I'm happy to coordinate efforts to >create / find them. Unfortunately I'm not much of an artist, so I thought I >might mention this here in case there are any GIMP/Blender experts lurking on >the list who would be interested in contributing. I'm currently open to >requests from other developers who know that they don't have any suitable >images in their source code. I'm also happy to receive pointers to other >icons that I'm likely to have missed or suitably convertible images. > >I am prepared to coordinate farming the icons out for distribution - any >suggestions on how to make them all available to all Linux Audio Users, as >well as DeMuDi (excepting the few DeMuDi-specific icons I have done) will be >gratefully received. While I'm at it, thanks to all the Authors, Developers >and Maintainers who have responded so positively so far. I understand how >much this may seem like a side-issue. > >cheers, > >tim hall >http://glastonburymusic.org.uk > >
