Oh alright, I thought that, using two colors, like the clock app depicted above, would appeal more without destroyed UX and usability. It would make apps look more "interesting" imo. Maybe I'm just saying all those because it happens in most other popular software.

I'm kinda confused. You mean that, the sidebar and the files view (content) should share the same colour? Like in Discover? Wouldn't it help users to identify whether what they look at is a sidebar if it has a different colour (like eff0f1)?

What about desktop-"focused" apps like dolphin? I think that those apps could look like dolphin: window content (large areas) should be lighter than sidebars and titlebars+toolbars, in breeze light. I haven't studied dark theme though to tell a lot.

Made some mockups, showing the various colors, some KDE apps can include.

Not exactly. It does for some, not all, but it can be "fixed" without code.

In T14397#254579, @davidre wrote:

In T14397#254578, @iothes wrote:

Anyway, so.. you have 16 icons in actions with 2px margins. 16/2=8 yet 22/3≠8. But 24/3=8.

Could you explain what that means in practice? And why are we dividing the size by the margins?

In T14397#254549, @cfeck wrote:

The geometric mean of 16 and 32 is 22.6274...

I think giving the lightest color to the widest areas seems technically the best: You got the darkest shade for titlebars, the middle one for sidebars and the rest (usually) will have the lightest color. (Talking about Breeze Light).

Do they really have to be made within LMMS and nothing else? There are few other open-source projects like Ardour and Zrythm (but the latter is still in development).

In T14125#251634, @veratil wrote:

In T14125#251632, @Guilhermems wrote:

Topic: Define how participants can submit their entries

I talked a little about this in the Promo room and I agree participants should be free to send their material in whatever way they please, as long as it's easily accesible by us. I still think they should put their sounds in a compressed file with a .txt inside with their info, but I also don't know if putting too many requirements is a good idea. Any thoughts on this?

Edit: I've just noticed LMMS makes people send their music through an online form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfJNvVtoCJ8SVQ8TWiPMjbIsl49RvwGiy1nODuvKdJ8Er_Bg/viewform). I guess we could do something similar, so people can add their info on the form and include a link with the files. Opinions?

This will probably be the most familiar way for the LMMS community to submit things in competition form. There are a few things I would bring up though for the rules. Here's a reworked first 3 Best of LMMS 8 rules, my notes in bold:

1. The Deadline:
   • Track must be submitted by MONTH DAY 2021 at 23:59.59 UTC using this form.
2. The Track:
   • Must be produced in LMMS.
   • You may use other programs for mastering and post processing. Do we want to allow this?
   • Must be under X seconds long.
   • No covers or remixes of other person(s) works are permitted.
3. The Submissions:
   • You must submit using this form only.
   • No more than ONE entry per artist is allowed. With multiple clips to be done, do we allow multiple entries and take the first submission per clip, or make multiple forms for each clip needed?
   • Collaborations count as ONE entry for each artist involved.
   • No collaborating with judges on entries.
   • Only submissions hosted on Soundcloud, YouTube, or Clyp are allowed. Do we allow others?
     • The full track should be available at the submission link provided
   • Your entry must be available for listening until the end of the judging process. If not, your entry will be disqualified.
   • The entry must not contain any trademarked or copyrighted material which you do not own the rights to. I believe it was discussed that only synths were going to be allowed to avoid any copyright stuff? Would be good to add an explicit rule for that.

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In T14125#251633, @paulb wrote:

I may have said this before, but... Would it not make sense to release a silent video showing the events we want sounds for and participants dub their sounds on top of that (and then put it up on YouTube, PeerTube, Vimeo or wherever)? This would give participants a good idea of what we want, a chance to see if their creations work or not, and make judging easier.

That would be nice, but I would hate to have people not enter because they are unable to do this part for one reason or another.

Yes, I always wanted to see the other two action buttons have a blue circle... just darker colors...