Icons contest 1.4
I believe Jajuk 1.4 has still a lot of icons that aren't enough self-explaining/user friendly. I am proposing to make a list here, discuss how we could improve them and finally vote for your favourites ones.
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A. The Rules
This Section describes the general guidelines of this workshop. Use the section B to propose new icons, discuss icons, and vote for icons.
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Guidelines to design icons
- Icons must be self-explaining/suggestive (use of short term memory, not long term).
- Icons may use well-known signs/symbols from day to day lift and well known software
- Icons should tell a story from the left to right and from the top to bottom (or in diagonal). E.g.: "Digital DJ" icon could be a digital symbol in the left top corner, then a DJ symbols in the right bottom corner.
- Best would be to use text, but it very difficult when icons are smalls
- Check out Jajuk manual and Screenshots sections to see current usage of icons. A non exhaustive list of icons used in Jajuk 1.4 is available on Icons_list_1.4.
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Evaluate icons
- See yourself as a new user. Best is to ask people who don't know Jajuk to guess what could be the purpose of a such icon (in a media player software context)
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To Vote:
- log on the wiki website
- edit this page
- vote by putting your name or the following string ~~~~ (4 tildes) next to your choice (it will automatically add your signature). You can precede it with a comment. Vote only once per icon. Of course, you can vote for the current one.
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Some extra guidelines to design icons
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B. Jajuk's icons list
- Download others Creative commons icons from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Application_icons
- See Tango project
- See Famfam 16x16 icons set
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inc_rating_16x16.png (command bar: increase current song rating)
| Icons | Votes/comments |
|---|---|
Current one: 
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Proposal 1: 
| --fsck222
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Proposal 2: 
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ddj_32x32.png (Command bar: Digital DJ)
| Icons | Votes/comments |
|---|---|
Current one: 
| I think we need something more suggestive than a smiley face. --fsck222 |
Proposal 1: 
| How about this image of dj vinyl-player? --selectus |
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finish_album_32x32.png (Command bar: finishing album)
| Icons | Votes/comments |
|---|---|
Current one: 
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Proposal 1: 
| --fsck222 |
Proposal 2: (from tango, in use in 1.4RC): 
| --bflorat |
Proposal 3: 
| first part of album (disc) + all other of this. --selectus
good one! --fsck222 |
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perspective_catalog_40x40.png (perspective)
| Icons | Votes/comments |
|---|---|
Current one: 
| I think we need something closer to music album cover than earth stamps collection --fsck222 |
Proposal 1: 
| Icon from Nick: great jukebox than would be OK as Albums perspective icon |
Proposal 2: 
| Set of CDs (made from crystal theme icons) |
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perspective_simple_40x40.png (perspective)
| Icons | Votes/comments |
|---|---|
Current one: 
| * I think we need something a bit more catchy, what about a home button? --fsck222 |
Proposal 1: 
| Bflorat 17:51, 7 August 2007 (CEST) |
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add_shuffle_16x16.png (playlist view)
| Icons | Votes/comments |
|---|---|
Current one: 
| I think this one needs a music note on it or something... --fsck222 |
| Proposal 1: |
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Genre icon
| Icons | Votes/comments |
|---|---|
Current one: 
| This is pretty good but it should be refactored to follow Tango rules (shadow...) |
| Proposal 1: |
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Accuracy icon (used in Cover view combo)
| Icons | Votes/comments |
|---|---|
Current one:  ,  and 
| This is pretty good but it should be refactored to follow Tango rules (shadow...) |
| Proposal 1: |
