Chris Cannam wrote: > On Wednesday 07 Mar 2007 20:55, Thorsten Wilms wrote: >> Completely different background and colours, played with the logo: >> >> http://thorwil.affenbande.org/apps-devel/index.html > > I'm not sure about the meter-strips colouring in the stem of the p in the > logo. It looks like a too ungainly attempt to get something audio-related > into the logo. I agreed with your previous view that that wasn't really > necessary, and I don't think these strips look enough like actual meters > (especially spaced as they are) to carry the metaphor. > > The silhouettes in the logo title bar are nice. > > The background seems odd at first glance, but wears well. I'm following the look'n'logo evolution with interest. looks a lot like software devel. 1st version nice and clean, and we get fixes as well as new bugs with each revision :) This latest version surprised me at first glance ("What's that now?") but at second view I came to like the style! I agree that the logo "P-meters" don't work well: bot spacing & color! - maybe we should reconsider the site's name :) Anyway besides the matters of taste, I've started to replace the logos in the apps-list by icons representing apps-features =apps-entry tag(s). fi. jack, jack_transport, alsa_midi work quite well: http://apps.linuxaudio.org/apps/categories/jack_transport Other topics should have a different set of "highlighted-tags" eg for http://apps.linuxaudio.org/apps/categories/linux_audio_bundles_distributions_and_music_collections symbols: 32bit, 64bit, Live/Install, CD/DVD, deb/rpm/tgz,.. (not yet implemented) ..and some general set of icons/quick-info about stability, user-rating, intended-audience, etc. - as Thorsten pointed out, it's easy to end up with a salad of icons..! To avoid that we should have some 10 to 20 well defined icons.. some exclusive to each other. I guess we can take recent surveys into account and come up with some good classification scheme. (tag-categories are structured in topics! - each topic specifies the special-tags that will be icon-highlighted for comparison eg. JACK or DISTROS).. and I'm sure there are more important topics that 32/64 bit and appreciate suggestions from musicians, version-junkies or any other dude who knows the subtleties of linux-audio software on what icons we'd like to have ;-) The back-end is prepared, we just need to agree on a set of special tags, icons and feed apps with the missing data :) slightly OT: we should rename some of the long category-tags (see http://apps.linuxaudio.org/wiki/open_discussion ) - I propose the LAC2007 workshop to discuss and "sign-off" major changes to the current data-set! robin PS. ATM I'm pretty much busy and more concerned with RSS-sync and mail-hook possibilities of this wiki. (eg. to update version numbers from source-repo) - There no intentions to set up a Forum! But we're thinking about a web-wrapper and buffer around the email-lists..
