Re: [Audacity-devel] Re: Request to Steve for new graphics

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Steve
 
It looks like this on my setup _http://members.aol.com/martynshaw/pref.gif_ 
(http://members.aol.com/martynshaw/pref.gif) 
Whilst I'm with James on Themes (people seem to like to customise their SW  
with ridiculous colours) and the work he's doing, I'm not sure that images are  
necessary here - they might take up space that requires scrollers and for  
what?  A spanner/cog (we know we're in the prefs bit already) and a  
'Spectorgrams' icon for what?  Maybe we could use it elsewhere as  well?
 
It's just that I'm not sure it's the best use of time - icons are hard to  
make and the main UI should be the focus of activities - get that right and then 
 reuse them with a spanner (cog) attached for the prefs would be my choice,  
if we need them at all there.
 

Just my humble opinion.
Martyn
 
In a message dated 17/05/2006 00:49:33 GMT Standard Time,  
ste...@si... writes:

James  Crook wrote:
> Steve,
[snip]
> We now have a need for some new  icons, see message below.  Would you be 
> interested in providing  them?

Yeah, I can probably help with that.

Something we're  working on in the Tango project is reducing the number 
of icons used on  the desktop. Icons can be a great help to a UI, but not 
if there are an  overwhelming number. This also leads to unmaintainable 
themes. The Gnome  Icon Theme, for example, is going through a transition 
to the Icon Naming  Spec [1] that dramatically reduces the total number 
of unique icons to a  more sane (but extensible, where appropriate) set.

In light of this, I  would encourage the Audacity developers to carefully 
consider how much  icons will improve the interface in each given situation.

That said, I  don't know enough about this preferences situation to 
suggest whether or  not icons are appropriate. As I'm not building 
Audacity from CVS, might  someone be able to post a screenshot of the 
screens in question? That'd be  a great help.

Thanks,
Steven Garrity

[1]  http://tango-project.org/Standard_Icon_Naming_Specification



>  James Crook wrote:
>> We had run out of space for tabs on the prefs  dialog so I have 
>> modified it to use a list of pages on the  left.  I've also made the 
>> layout of the pages slightly more  compact.  Both these changes are now 
>> in  CVS.
>>
>> Each of the items in the list has an image  associated with it. 
>> Currently these are just placeholders.   It would be great to have 
>> Tango images for these.  I'm  working on making Audacity more themable 
>> and customisable.   This is a first step, and is so I can add an extra 
>> tab for theme  management.  If someone can produce images in PNG 
>> format,  I'll  do the other steps that are needed to use them within 
>>  Audacity.
>>
>> Because the images are all for configuration  settings, it might make 
>> sense if there is some common graphic  element in each of these images, 
>> such as a small cog-wheel.   What do people think?
>>
>> There is space for images 32  pixels wide.  We could probably take 
>> images 32 pixels high,  but it might look better with squatter images.
>>
>> The  images we need are for configuration/preference settings  for:
>>   - Audio I/O
>>   -  Quality
>>   - File Formats
>>   -  Spectrograms
>>   - Directories
>>   -  Interface
>>   - Theme
>>   -  Batch
>>   - Keyboard
>>   -  Mouse
>>
>> There may be some rejigging of the titles later  that will need 
>> revisions to the images.  For example  Directories is a very short 
>> configuration screen and might get  merged with one of the others.
>  


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