On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 06:46, Ken Vermette <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Bart Cerneels <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 08:14, Myriam Schweingruber <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 18:18, Ken Vermette <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I know you guys aren't looking for an icon to replace the existing >>>> crystal-style icon, but I've prepared an oxygen style icon because the >>>> existing Amarok icon doesn't match the general style of the Oxygen icon >>>> set. >>> >>> Are you aware that that icon is actually part of the logo and >>> trademark of Amarok? It was never intended to be changed in any icon >>> set. >>> >>> While your logo looks very nice I still think it is not suitable for >>> Amarok as it suggest that Amarok is a CD player which is only a small >>> subset of the Amarok functions. >>> >>> Regards, Myriam >>> -- >>> Proud member of the Amarok and KDE Community >>> Protect your freedom and join the Fellowship of FSFE: >>> http://www.fsfe.org >>> Please don't send me proprietary file formats, >>> use ISO standard ODF instead (ISO/IEC 26300) >>> _______________________________________________ >> >> I like it though, even if it does not fit with the current trademark. >> >> Ken: you obviously know your way around a graphics editor. How do you >> feel about doing some other artwork that we are currently missing. >> For instance: we have background images for the browsers (media >> sources panel) but not for the (if empty) context view nor playlist. >> Such images would be really welcome to break the "ocean of grey" >> effect when there is no content. >> We sort of have a house style for those, but if perhaps you can make >> the other images fit the oxygen style as well. >> >> Bart > > @Myriam: All I was asking was if someone was willing to compile a copy > for personal use, I can never get things to build properly so I was > just curious if someone already set up for it would be willing. That > being said, while I'm aware of the concept of branding I didn't > realise it would be that bad an idea to offer an icon to an > open-source project. I could change the CD to the moon, but from your > message I doubt any attempts to work on a new icon would be welcome.
That is quite some effort just for changing an icon. I think it might just be easier to replace the icon on the file system. Would be overwritten with each new install though. > > @Bart: I'd be happy to help out where I can, but I can't guarantee a > super-speedy schedule on when you'll get my commits. I can definitely > get some sort of playlist background-art in for you; I'm not really > sure what you'd want for the context view though, and once art is on > either side I'm not sure if it would make it overcrowded. Anywho, > looking at the background art, is it in grey-scale? > > Throwing in my two cents if I may; In general options there's the > option to have either background art or no background art. If I made a > second series of very simple unobtrusive background images, could the > "show Background Images" option be changed to a dropdown with... > > Background Images: ["Detailed" "Simple" "None"] > (Maybe using just folder names in some location so people could add their > own?) > > I've just found that when text gets overlaid on top of the background > images it tends to get very messy looking with detailed icons below; > and disabling the background images leaves you with that familiar > "ocean of grey". I'm mentioning this because a simplified 2D set of > icons will probably still break that monotony, but not fight any text > that gets laid on top of it. Just an idea, I can throw the art in if > someone programs the dropdown/art changer. :) > > - Ken We really try hard to avoid many configuration options. We'll just stick with the current on/off, which in an ideal situation would not be needed at all. I was planning of introducing a global CSS file for amarok. That could include the background images along with colors, etc. _______________________________________________ Amarok-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
