| 9 Dec 2024 |
 Fernando Rodrigues | By the way, don't worry about off-topic, hydra and sysops. KDE's SVG library has trouble rendering fonts with borders. | 21:57:18 |
 dgrig | This is what my element sidebar currently looks like, because all the rooms start with "Nix/NixOS something" it's hard to differentiate them. Your changes makes this sidebard much more readable, so again thank you. | 21:58:05 |
| Fernando Rodrigues | 
Download 27.png | 21:58:24 |
| Fernando Rodrigues | Final icon for now: NixOS Matrix Suggestions. I didn't like that it has an Element logo. Element isn't all of Matrix! | 21:58:50 |
 @emma:rory.gay | the staging one could probably use the generic git icon instead? or a 3-way merge icon. review requests doesnt really make sense to me despite using git day in day out | 21:59:01 |
| @emma:rory.gay | security also has that same issue of feeling too generic | 21:59:28 |
| @emma:rory.gay | ooh i like this | 21:59:38 |
| @emma:rory.gay | i like the contrasting black bg instead of the white one | 21:59:51 |
| Fernando Rodrigues | I'd love to get more dark gray/black backgrounds in the room icons. the category team has a yellow on dark gray scheme | 22:00:35 |
| @emma:rory.gay | also about #11, was the swearing implication intentional? xD | 22:01:39 |
| Fernando Rodrigues | In reply to @emma:rory.gay
security also has that same issue of feeling too generic I agree. That said, isn't that kind of the point of a room icon for a topic as generic as `infrastructure` or `security`? The Security Triage room has "`#@!%`" in the room icon. I'm sure that's probably an inside joke when the room was created, but I have no idea how that relates to security. | 22:01:57 |
| Fernando Rodrigues | In reply to @emma:rory.gay
also about #11, was the swearing implication intentional? xD That was long before my time, haha. I've only done Xen onwards. | 22:02:19 |
| @emma:rory.gay | ah | 22:02:24 |
| @emma:rory.gay | yeah no i kinda want to keep the non-corporate feel alive tbh | 22:02:33 |
| @emma:rory.gay | lets not make nix/nixos sterile and boring :D | 22:02:45 |
| Fernando Rodrigues | How do we do that while still keeping the icons recognisable? | 22:02:57 |
| Fernando Rodrigues | for instance, how do we show the tagging efforts from the categorisation team without using a tag? | 22:03:21 |
| Fernando Rodrigues | A skeuomorphic tag, maybe? I'm not sure how good that would look. Icons can't have too many details. | 22:03:52 |
| Fernando Rodrigues | In reply to @emma:rory.gay
the staging one could probably use the generic git icon instead? or a 3-way merge icon. review requests doesnt really make sense to me despite using git day in day out Also, wouldn't the git icon be exactly the same as the current icon, but inside a rounded square and rotated? | 22:04:55 |
| Fernando Rodrigues | In reply to @emma:rory.gay
the staging one could probably use the generic git icon instead? or a 3-way merge icon. review requests doesnt really make sense to me despite using git day in day out * Also, wouldn't the git icon be sort of the same as the current icon, but inside a rounded square and rotated? | 22:05:09 |
| @emma:rory.gay | i hate how there's no iconology for non-one-on-one merging lol | 22:05:42 |
| Fernando Rodrigues | Well, perhaps the idea of using git and branches as the metaphor is wrong. What comes to mind when you think `staging`? | 22:06:20 |
| @emma:rory.gay | git and branches lol | 22:06:33 |
| @emma:rory.gay | well actually no... you say just the word staging, right? | 22:06:48 |
| Fernando Rodrigues | i've had the idea of "staging area" like a large open room or an actual stage. | 22:07:10 |
| @emma:rory.gay | makes me think of server management | 22:07:11 |
| Fernando Rodrigues | but i'm not sure how many people would get that. | 22:07:21 |
| Fernando Rodrigues | In reply to @emma:rory.gay
makes me think of server management considering we have Infrastructure, System Operations, Networking and probably a few other server-management-related rooms, I think that metaphor will be overused very soon. | 22:08:03 |
| @emma:rory.gay | staging to me is the ops part of development lifecycle, not the dev part (aka testing & deployment, not branch management) | 22:08:23 |
| Fernando Rodrigues | Lifecycle! What if the metaphor is a cycle of some kind | 22:09:06 |
