Mixxx

Decide on MIDI/HID Controller icon

Bug #992813 reported by RJ Skerry-Ryan
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Mixxx
Fix Released
Low
jus
Mixxx 1.11.0

Bug Description

Need to decide whether the MIDI/HID controller icon should stay as the keyboard icon or be something new. (decision is up to jus)

RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan)
Changed in mixxx:
assignee: nobody → RJ Ryan (rryan)
assignee: RJ Ryan (rryan) → jus (jus)
milestone: none → 1.11.0
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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jus (jus) wrote :

Current icon in trunk is same as for Vinyl Control. Iirc this this was changed when the hid-support branch got merged. We had a brief discussion in mixxx-devel (cant find thread right now) where something more like a dj-controller or cdj was suggested as icon.

I spend a good amount of time trying to come up with something, but the level of detail required will not really fit into a 16*16. A 2-deck controller icon looks also pretty similar to the recording icon. So i went with a CDJ, but something is missing.

Anyway, please have a look and tell which one you like more and we`ll go with that.

To me the 1.10 icon (midi keyboard) is still first choice, because of it`s distinctive shape and it`s universal association with musical input devices.

Changed in mixxx:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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jus (jus) wrote :
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RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan) wrote : Re: [Bug 992813] Re: Decide on MIDI/HID Controller icon

Hmm, the CDJ icon looks nice! I think either icon will work since CDJs are
probably as recognizable by a DJ as a MIDI keyboard is. It's up to you.

(People still use floppy disks as save icons so there is some history of
using anachronisms as icons for the sake of recognizability :) )

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:34 PM, jus <email address hidden> wrote:

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mutil (mutil) wrote :

CDJ icon seems nice and more accurate.

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jus (jus) wrote :

Thanks guys, committed the CDJ icon.

Changed in mixxx:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan)
Changed in mixxx:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Swiftb0y (swiftb0y) wrote :

Mixxx now uses GitHub for bug tracking. This bug has been migrated to:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/issues/6390

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