Hello! Luis Felipe López Acevedo <felipe.lo...@openmailbox.org> skribis:
> As part of the Guile project I imagine, I'd like to propose these > visual modifications for the logo and the website. > > Logo > https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/guile-logo-proposal-2015-06-16.png I like it! > Website mockup (some rough sketches here) > https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/website-mockup-2015-09-15.png > > My intention with this proposal is, hopefully, to modernize the image > of the project a bit and make it more attractive to potential users. This is amazing! I really like the web site mockup. The drawings are just awesome. Christopher Allan Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> skribis: > First of all, I think this looks *amazing*! Will it keep these kind of > nice black and white drawings, or will the final result have a more > refined look? Either way, I like the childrens' book type > illustrations. (My request would be that if they do become colored, the > two children-programmers whose bodies are somewhat visible have > different skin tones for diversity reasons. I think they look gender > ambiguous enough because of the suits.) Honestly I think the rough > black and white versions look very nice as-is though, and I am not sure > how to color them without a kind of watercolor look. Very "Where the > Wild Things Are" meets robots. A good combination! I would leave them as is; I think it’s fine without colors. > Second, a friend of mine pointed out a couple of things: > > - The "Guile is an extension language platform" section gives the > impression maybe overly that it's an extension language far and above > being an independent language. Guile is certainly optimized for > this, especially for legacy reasons, but more and more Guile > applications seem to be written entirely within Guile itself. +1 > Maybe the text could be something like: > > "Guile contains a neat and highly optimized virtual machine. Or rather “… an efficient compiler and virtual machine.” > It can be used out of the box to write programs in Scheme, or > can easily be integrated with C and C++ programs. > > Guile is the GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions, > and the official extension language of the GNU project." +1 > - It may be nice to show code examples. Lisp is often interpreted as > being hard to read; I have found that a nice theme and > rainbow-parentheses has reduced that fear for some users. Here's > some examples of screenshots I have taken of my own emacs with > various lisps... none of them are perfect, and this isn't scheme > code, but to get the general idea: > > http://dustycloud.org/tmp/emacs_lisp_setup.png > ^- Probably could do without the highlighting? > > http://dustycloud.org/tmp/emacs-rainbow-all-the-things.png > ^- Probably could do without the rainbow-delimeters? > > http://dustycloud.org/tmp/emacs_wombat.png > ^- Something different, but also a nice theme > > I'm not 100% confident on this; showing "real code" might actually > clutter things or make things more intimidating. The present > design I think is fairly intimidation-free. Maybe these could go under “Getting Started”? I like what racket-lang.org does with the cycling code examples. An option would be to still their idea (and code? ;-)). Other comments: • In the “Extend applications” part, I would remove Lua, move ECMA to the back on the drawing, and add Scheme to the front; we might even replace ECMA with C. In general, we don’t want to emphasize multiple-language support, so I would also remove it from the heading. • The “Applications” part is a good idea. Unfortunately, we cannot (yet!) have LilyPond there (its port to Guile 2.0 is incomplete) and TeXmacs (not sure what the status is.) Perhaps Guile-Charting, Guile-Present, or Guile-OpenGL would make for a nice picture, or maybe Guile-SSH for a black terminal-like geeky image? • I noticed with the Guix web site that “Help” is a bit confusing since it’s about getting help and not about helping out (contributing). • I think we can remove “Blog”, but a news section would be welcome, possibly with a preview on the main page as you did for Guix? Thanks a lot! Ludo’.
