customizable or else less personal login icons

[lbestock]

This is a painful ticket for me. I really like the vestiges of the early project, the things that are personal. The yups and nopes. The spider button. The spider button can be turned off and will anyway be the hill I die on in terms of eradicating all personal stuff. It stays. Forever. But the login icons are ready to be rethought. A pharaoh's head and crook and flail only work in part of the world, and since I have sat in a meeting not that long ago when someone vibrated with anger and said he did not feel comfortable in the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World because the images of classical art on the walls made him feel excluded.... Well, I want him to use Kiosk. The icons might make him feel excluded.

I also don't want my Tut mask to go away. Can we even imagine having options there? Like New World people can have Olmec heads or Easter Island moai? Although that is potentially offensive to someone too and no longer personal anyway, so maybe something more generic is wanted. How boring and dumb.

[lbestock]

Look, there is totally a moai icon:

[lbestock]

Many. And Olmec heads. Don't know how I feel about the world.

[urapadmin]

they are all nice but you need to have the rights to publish them (something you just did) ! Do you?

[urapadmin]

To achieve something like this: and this: all that is necessary is having two custom images, of course, and this customization file:

:root
  --header-logo-img: url('/custom_file/images/mkap_logo_small.png')
  --current-user-svg: url('/custom_file/images/user.png')
  --user-password-svg: url('/custom_file/images/pwd.png')

😨 And the rights to use the images.

[urapadmin]

so, we are not exaggerating when we say that Kiosk itself was designed towards customization from the start

[urapadmin]

some documentation of Kiosk customization would be nice one day, but man, that'll be a task

[urapadmin]

@lbestock: now you have a task: Please give me two SVGs that we use as the standard svgs. Uronarti will keep its current ones through customization.

[lbestock]

Wie cool ist das, bitte? Our software is so rad. But this is totally unfair, I can't find/make icons and get ready for the cleaners at the same time.

[urapadmin]

can we cut the youth speak?

[urapadmin]

Wie cool ist das, bitte? Our software is so rad. But this is totally unfair, I can't find/make icons and get ready for the cleaners at the same time.

you don't have to do it right away. In general I am thinking about getting away from the copyright issue by designing our own icons. You guys have the skills, just perhaps not the time. That is something where (RISD) students could help, if they were in the least helpful. But as for the user-id and password icon, just do it when you have time to make one (don't find one! That runs into the copyright issues even if the images are open source because that often comes with the obligation to cite the creator somewhere)

[lbestock]

Oh but who could resist? Not me. Your first two are perhaps still too far from PC but pick up on familiar themes. Maybe we should have a whole range?

[lbestock]

Hm I like the Ark of the Covenant better a little heavier I think.

[lbestock]

We have a Maya login. Bu we won't get a password to go along with it tonight.

[lbestock]

Needs line weight help.

[urapadmin]

Oh but who could resist? Not me. Your first two are perhaps still too far from PC but pick up on familiar themes. Maybe we should have a whole range?

While the cowboy hat (I suspect it is meant to be an Indy hat) might work to symbolize a user (an indeed not very PC), the Ark of the Convenant (whatever that is) surely will not be recognized to symbolize a password universally. Also you must think about the size on the screen and look at what is left of the SVG when scaled down to something like 128x128px or even 64x64.

What about something simpler and more widely recognized for our default (why would we need a whole range unless we have a specific project wanting something specific?). Like a person and a key? I know, that's not fun, but I think we have to leave the fun behind here for the default.

Oh, and please don't use GitHub as the place for the files. We have the google drive for that: \Kiosk Shared Files\material_for_development\images.

[lbestock]

Super boring, but I guess you are right. Well, you have handcrafted boring boring person and key SVGs in the images folder.

[urapadmin]

okay, tried to use this after all. Can't. First: That's one file and not two files. Second: It is not an SVG. It only masks as an SVG. So I have no idea where you got those from, but they are bitmaps in an SVG frame.

[lbestock]

I made them in Illustrator myself. Hmpf.

[lbestock]

When I save them separately in Illustrator it gives me an SVG code button even. I don't know how else to do this - this is precisely what I did with all the spiders we use. There are at least now two files. I originally made the images as vectors in Illustrator and that is still definitely how I see them. Is it possible googledrive does something malign to them?

[urapadmin]

and now they are real svgs. You can see that easily: The combined ones are waaaaaay larger.

[urapadmin]

Kiosk 1.5.23

• the defaults are now set to boring but politically less difficult

[luizaogs]

This hasn't been released, right? Just making sure I'm not confused by the numbers again.

[urapadmin]

No, I only released the plugin yesterday. But I need to release it because now PVD has not login icons anymore.

[luizaogs]

MKAP too, it seems.

[urapadmin]

Kiosk 1.5.23.1

• now the login icons should show our new boring but politically correct default

[lbestock]

PVD now boring. But BUAP now misses its pharaoh head (still has the crook and flail).

[lbestock]

And URAP has the pharaoh head but the password is the boring one instead of the crook and flail.

[luizaogs]

MKAP appears to only have a password icon (the key) currently. But the pharaoh is still there in the Hub.

Since it's Egypt, can we keep the pharaoh and crook and flail? How dumb, that this change is necessary at all.

[luizaogs]

I guess the question is where this has been released? Should we check all kiosks?

[urapadmin]

PVD now boring. But BUAP now misses its pharaoh head (still has the crook and flail).

BUAP? I have not rolled BUAP out, have I?

[urapadmin]

I have released MKAP, URAP, PASU and PVD, I think. It will roll out to all projects bit by bit and then we have to apply whatever icon a project actually wants. I will make sure in the next iteration that all Egypt projects have the pharaoh and crook and flail. Customization was a bit of a mess here (because it was not really necessary before). Seems I have to be a bit more systematic about it.

[luizaogs]

PASU looks correct.

[urapadmin]

Now systematically: Each of these needs to be installed and then the new clone/update custom config script executed with the result that the projects in Egypt have Pharaoh and Flail and the others the neutral icons.

• [x] PVD
• [x] MKAP
• [x] URAP
• [x] MADP
• [x] KAMBE
• [x] KHPP
• [x] PASU
• [x] PACHA
• [x] USTP
• [x] ARCH1900
• [x] BUAP

[urapadmin]

06.II.24 18:00

All projects should be ready now. To achieve this I also had to update them to Kiosk version 1.5.23.1

[urapadmin]

paaaaaaaaaaaaaainful. I hope this is done now.

[urapadmin]

I just close this. It will show soon enough if there are icons missing.