QT4 Consolidation Thread - VLC's New Interface

[vlc_fan-01]

Last preview mock-up just to show the softer faded colours of the documents in using the playlist icon as an example.

I think definately that Yellow is nice but also red,green and the blue. Generic of course will be plain (as is) with no colour change.

I'd going for Yellow=subitle Green=playlist , maybe this time the Blue= video and then that Red=audio
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=35494&start=420#p202653

The VLC cone remains the original orange and shows up nicely against these other colours, which is just perfect because I know changing the colour of the cone was not popular. I should be sure to darken each symbol to a dark grey/blackish so that each symbol shows up better against the colours as in the preview above.

[EDIT]
OK maybe no 'VLC' text for the Generic icon since the applications supports a same extension called VLC and in wanting to avoid confusion.

[3breadt]

Maybe make the colors a little lighter or less saturated?

[vlc_fan-01]

I think I did achive to make the colours lighter like you said and avoided saturating em. I just wanted nicer colours that wouldn't take the visual attention away from the each symbol and VLC cone on the icons. This should be it now, but will let all of you try em and judge. Myself, I am using all of these system wide with a new freeware tool called Assox.

Download Link at very bottom of post (sorry if you don't like Rapidshare)
16x16 -looks better now, just docu image and tiny vlc cone
32x32 -better aspect ratio against other standard size icons on Win
48x48 -looks really nice


I still keep the images for anyone wanting to do a Mac OS job

These are all the previews to which show the diff sizes, with more previews I snapped below from my system.

the text font is the basic - Arial rounded mt bold


48x48 Audio


48x48 Subtitle , Playlist


16x16 (Better!)


48x48 Video


32x32 Video, Audio


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DOWNLOAD [PNG & ICO]

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[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I like the way it is going.

[vlc_fan-01]

I like the way it is going.

What is your decision? Who else is in charge of which icons make it

[baniway]

Hello, i would like to try the vlc nightlies version, i dowload it here: http://nightlies.videolan.org/ but after install, it's te same program than the official release... I don't have the new interface. Someone can help me? (sorry for my english, i'm french...)

[3breadt]

The new QT4 interface is already implemented and available since VLC 0.9.
Many of the suggestions mentioned in this thread are not implemented though and many probably never will be.

[vlc_fan-01]

All grey: This all grey could go for the Mac builds of VLC



Any news from any dev's here what/whose icons are gonna make it and which release?

[lopoz]

Nice, although a design like that will not go over well with the Mac community, I can tell you that.

[nikola23]

Regardless of OS i like them better as just grey

[vlc_fan-01]

No. Some type of colour DOES look nicer under Windows Explorer.

One has to think of users who have mixed folder of audio and video content together with often varying icon views. Then there are many apps like file managers, web browsers and such that will use the icons at smaller sizes too. I am still sure, if the rest of you are sure, that any of the grey sets previously posted could be reserved for Mac OS, but he needs to make the symbol stand-out much more and certainly remove the text.

This whole subject has dragged on a bit now and needs to come to a final resolution.

[lopoz]

Well, I don't know who made you the authority on the subject, but 'he' can do whatever the hell he pleases to do.
And I'm not gonna 'certainly remove the text' just because you say so..

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Authority is the vlc-devel mailing list.

[lopoz]

Authority is the vlc-devel mailing list.

I wasn't talking to you, j-b, but thanks for clearing that up...

I've given my Illustrator files to aLtgLasS and am taking my hands off the matter. I've also posted some Mac .icns files somewhere in this thread, so anyone wanting to use them can go ahead.

Good luck to vlc_fan and see you around

[vlc_fan-01]

Great, forums back online again and VLC 1.0 has been released

Well, I don't know who made you the authority on the subject, but 'he' can do whatever the hell he pleases to do.
And I'm not gonna 'certainly remove the text' just because you say so..

Sorry for the brashness, it's just that many dev's here always ask for more development support in VLC and for me not being a software coder and instead contributing on a more graphical side I just wanted more attention on the subject...casue VLC still hasn't got any proper file icons as yet. My icons aren't spectacular, just nice I think, I really like them and I want many Windows (and Linux) users to share them for use.

Authority is the vlc-devel mailing list.

My friend, that's all you had to state to us. You told me this sometime already but now you just reiterated to me that these type of decisions have gotta go through mailing list.

[steveblack]

I've made some icons for this purpose, based on the basic orange & white cone.

Those are just colour variations of the original icon (in blue, green, red, purple...) without any text on it, so people can assign them manually to the file extensions of their choosing. And they are rather small, so they are principally designed for a file list display in "detail" mode (and not as a big icon display mode).

http://ednys.free.fr/soft/icons/VLC_Vid ... colors.rar



I know it's not as good as other work here, which I admire, but I made these without knowing about this thread!

[vlc_fan-01]

Lemme see if I can make that proposal in the mailing list.

[vlc_fan-01]

Made another small adjustment to that download package (new link) with the final redo of the 16x16 icon size, see:


I sent an email with the icons to:

Code: Select all

videolan-devel@videolan.org

fingers crossed

[vlc_fan-01]

QT Enhancement suggestion: I notice on two media player's I have used that the associated file icon of the filetype is displayed in it's 16x16 size on the corner of the GUI. The media player's I meant that did this is on Media Player Classic and also seen on a particular KM Player skin I use (see below). I think this would make a great visual enhancement for VLC's interface too...



on the KM Player skin called Sparkle


Here is another alternate way a file icon can be read and displayed: As a cool visualization maybe at 256pix or largest size!

[vlc_fan-01]

j-b any news?

(I got Vista now and they look great)

[SpeedyChair]

Has there been any advancements regarding an accessible VLC interface for Windows and / or gnome? Was there ever a wxWidgets plugin, as discussed in this thread, to provide full accessibility for the blind and visually impaired, using JAWS from FreedomScientific.com or NVDA from nvda-project.org. Most blind users have had to search out and keep VLC Player at version 0.86i! That version works great, but our community would like to keep up with VLC enhancements. Likewise, I would like to have VLC accessible in the gnome desktop of Ubuntu 10.0.4 Lucid and Ubuntu 10.1 Maverick. I would assume a gtk interface is generally more accessible using Orca.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

VLC is perfectly accessible with NVDA. Jaws is broken, but they refuse to fix it.

[benway]

I just reeeeaaaallly wanted to one-up the idea for an "Album" column / tab in interface !!
It would very nearly per-fect things !!
[Maybe a column for "year" as well, but the "Album" column is a must-have !!]
This is just about the best player out I think. Probably is , but a few more tweaks and it would just be indisputable.
Loving my Flac files.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I just reeeeaaaallly wanted to one-up the idea for an "Album" column / tab in interface !!
It would very nearly per-fect things !!
[Maybe a column for "year" as well, but the "Album" column is a must-have !!]
This is just about the best player out I think. Probably is , but a few more tweaks and it would just be indisputable.
Loving my Flac files.

I don't understand.

[vlc_fan-01]

Hmm did VLC ever get any new file-type icons then? Is it still planned?