Digital and anlagog imput.
2 More channels, the analog one is based on the one we have now in devices just made it gold, the digital one will work better on a non white background because it has a light sparkle.
Air and KDE 4.3.
Air was the wallpaper we introduced in KDE 4.2, but that is just the beginning of something larger. Air is supposed to be different than what Oxygen is, something that tries to appeal to a user base looking for a more "sexy" experience than Oxygen (yeah I know you are out there :) ), but to still have the capability of merging nicely with what we have now. The first thing we started working on was a Plasma theme. Plasma, with it's immense plasticity and a fantastic coder team, allows us to try to push for new ideas. Another extremely cool thing about Plasma is it's ability to become anything you want it to be. So a user in KDE 4.3 might have a desktop that looks like this, if that is his wish, without having to use external software: (click for fullscreen mode) This is an example of how simple one can make a desktop in the 4.3 Plasma once we all manage to get all of our plans working. The new systray speck will help, the work being done on the task bar will allow you ...
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How about using the same picture and putting a "0011010010011" below the digital one ?
Alex
Still, something like a sine wave and square wave might be clearer.
Up arrow + green sine wave = analogue in
Up arrow + red square wave = digital in
Down arrow + green sine wave = analogue out
Down arrow + red square wave = digital out
???
something like that
On the other hand, "context counts", so maybe if there are text labels that are visible this would work a little better...
At any rate, whether or not the icons are appropriate for the task at hand they do look really good! :)
But what about a red sparkle? Last time I looked at a Macbook it was indeed red.
Note right now (kde 3.x icons). most of those channels use the same icon for what they do, and no one complained :)
Of course I see that the icons are different, and when looking closely the upper one indeed looks more like a normal analog plug, but the differences are really small. Without looking closely, I just see two small longish yellow thingies which look quite similar, so for me it adds more confusion than it helps.
I'm also not sure making them yellow (golden) helps, I think just grey for "metal" may be easier to recognize. I think there are many non-technical users who don't even know that there are golden plugs.
Alex
I personally like both icons very much! I also enjoy your recent boost in blog posting.
Keep it up.