Polltrack

[Michael Allan]

> It is visible enough now, I feel, but for my taste, the starlike
> shape is to complicated somehow. All other symbols are very very
> basic. Isn't there another realy basic symbol we could use? (Somehow
> I can't believe that I'm asking this. It's my perfectionism driving
> me. Please be aware of that!) ...

Perfectionism is good. :-)  I tried different shapes.  See track.svg
graveyard: http://zelea.com/project/votorola/a/web/context/stage/poll/
What should we do here?  Is there anyone out there with Inkscape who
can improve the Issue icon?

One possible caveat: these icons could easily vanish when we get a
full pollspace curtain or scene.  The polltrack will have to abide by
the full visual, whatever that turns out to be.  That doesn't
necessarily mean the iconography will change, but it might.

> ... But in case you want to stay with the starlike symbol, please
> add those rays and the brightness also to the mouse over view.

This is the trouble I ran into earlier.  I found the mouse-over for
the unspecified (plain Issue) stub has to be subdued.  The stub is a
tiny dot (which is nice, because it adds texture) and needs to expand
to something less than the other stubs, or it feels wrong (at least
for me).  That's why I broke out a "Staged" version of the Issue icon
and put all the brightness there.

(I answer about curtains separately.)

Mike


Thomas von der Elbe said:
> 
> On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 6:50, Michael Allan wrote:
> > It's the same size, just a different shape (more starlike). [...] I 
> > added some extra "rays". Still, it might not be enough.
> 
> It is visible enough now, I feel, but for my taste, the starlike shape 
> is to complicated somehow. All other symbols are very very basic. Isn't 
> there another realy basic symbol we could use? (Somehow I can't believe 
> that I'm asking this. It's my perfectionism driving me. Please be aware 
> of that!) But in case you want to stay with the starlike symbol, please 
> add those rays and the brightness also to the mouse over view.
> 
> > That's a cheap Christmas gift, I can afford that one. :-) 
> > http://zelea.com/var/db/repo/votorola/rev/9cf01f27cb1e 
> 
> Thanks! :-)
> 
> >> And in vote-space, if I expand the tree a lot and have to scroll the
> >> screen to the left and right, I'd like all the tracks stay stable at
> >> the top and not move.
> > We could probably do it by gluing it to the screen, like in the
> > drafts.  Normally I wouldn't put much effort into the old votespace,
> > since we'll have the new curtain version at some point.  But it's
> > probably only 1 day.
> 
> What priority has the new curtain version for you? And also, how long, 
> do you think, would it take?
> 
> > I feel it's a higher priority now to expose the software more. So the 
> > home page, the mailing list, and (if others agree) Metagov pages. 
> > That's maybe 2 weeks. I'm hoping we'll get more developers at some 
> > point. It's always a long shot, but the earlier we try the better. But 
> > I'll do these two improvements (above) whenever you say. 
> 
> Yes, lets do the exposure first and the others after that.
> 
> Thomas