Is this logo ever going to be used as an icon? Aubio is a library after all, not a GUI program that needs to be launched, so a more complex design would be just fine.

As a complex logo, numbers 7 and 9 are good (2 still holds it’s own). I like the realism of 9 (but the clock is too small), and the multiple tools in 7 (suggests multiple abilities).

In both of your examples, you just end up with specialized, integrated file managers. In an application centric (as opposed to a document centric) setup.

The user shouldn’t really be concerned with files at all. I mean, I should be able to go through my day without touching the file browser at all.

Right now, the only real place where we *expect* this behavior is with music players. These players manage our “libraries” in a way that we would never consider digging through the file browser instead of just using the player to find our music. So, why haven’t other apps caught on?

Example:

My word processor should manage my Documents “library”. It should help me find that report I wrote for history class, or the letter I wrote to my congressman with relative ease. I want nice previews of my documents, so I can see what they are at a glance and have categories so I don’t have to look at school work to find something related to my job. It should be able to find and download new templates from the internet. etc.

Affordable disk space is still growing nicely.

Just being able to go back to older versions (without having the folder cluttered with numbered files), helped by a log with commit messages, is of great value.

There’s certainly room for optimization and specific tools, which might include things like bitmap image version patching and diff viewers.

I tend to think in terms of GUIs. You say ‘interface’, I think ‘GUI’. Apologies… Still, I do think that the approach you are suggesting here could lead in some exciting directions for data management GUIs.

GNOME needs to provide users with a better way to organise and manage their data. That solution should be focused on metadata rather than files. I’d love to see a document management application built on top of Zeitgeist and Tracker, for example, and have some ideas about how that could be done.

What I’d disagree with is that there should be a common GUI for dealing with all types of data. A few reasons:
– Photo and music management are sufficiently specialised to warrant having separate GUIs.
– A universal data management GUI would be both complex and unable to to cater to the niche use-cases you find with specific types of data.
– A universal data management GUI would be become an obligatory passage point for pretty much all the tasks on the desktop. I think that that role should be taken by the Shell, not a specific application.

That said, feel free to prove me wrong on these points.

Thanks!

The logos are very nice, I’ve gone through your archive and looked at your other works – I’m impressed, thanks for sharing them! I will get back to your site when inspiration is needed

I also liked your proposal for the scroll-bar widget.

Greetings from Moldova!