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drwhut / tabletop-club

An open-source platform for playing tabletop games in a physics-based 3D environment for Windows, macOS, and Linux! Made with the Godot Engine.
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Change the way how external links in the main menu are represented. #278

Open GrimPixel opened 1 year ago

GrimPixel commented 1 year ago

The current icons are not intuitive and requires mouse hovering.

drwhut commented 1 year ago

While I would like to use them, I'm not 100% sure if I can, especially for the Discord logo. I was not able to find anything online as to how I can use the Discord logo, so I took the cautious route and used generic icons instead. I'm assuming Matrix is a little more relaxed in this regard, but at that point I decided to make the icons consistent.

With v0.2.0 the main menu will probably be re-worked anyway, my thinking being that the bottom of the main menu is starting to get cluttered. One idea I had was to put all of the external links in a pop-up window, with the titles being alongside the icons rather than in the tooltip.

GrimPixel commented 1 year ago

Ah, I see, you just don't have ideas about the law. Last time was using the system font. If you visit a random site, you can see they are using icons of social media. That is nothing to fear.

elmodor commented 1 year ago

Can you use fontawesome? They have a discord icon: https://fontawesome.com/icons/discord

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GrimPixel commented 1 year ago

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Matrix.org_logos https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Discord_(software)

drwhut commented 1 year ago

Ah, I see, you just don't have ideas about the law. Last time was using the system font. If you visit a random site, you can see they are using icons of social media. That is nothing to fear.

It's not that I have no idea about the law (I had to take a course about software law at university), it's that I'm choosing to be strict about what I include with the base game. At the bare minimum, in order for an asset to be included in the base game, it needs to have an open license (CC0, CC BY-SA, etc.), which Wikimedia claims the discord logo is, but that might not necessarily be the case. I would need to see Discord themselves saying the logo is open to use without restriction.

This also doesn't account for the fact that the logo is trademarked, which is a whole other can of worms that I am not willing to open, which is why even if the icon is included in Font Awesome Free, I'm still anxious about using it.

In almost every single game I've played that has had a link to the game's Discord, it has been a text button using the game's font saying "Discord" or "Join us on Discord" or something along those lines - this will most likely be the route that I take in the future, since it does not open up a risk of infringing someone's trademark.

GrimPixel commented 1 year ago

There it is https://discord.com/branding No statement for the Matrix logo. Yeah, your solution of using text is still good. It should also apply on that itch.io icon, as well as Godot's.

drwhut commented 1 year ago

Of course, their branding guidelines explain to excrutiating detail how the logo should look, but not how it should be used... I would assume from their playful branding that they are pretty relaxed about it, but concrete wording would be nice ><

I think replacing the links at the bottom of the main menu with generic icons + text is the best way forward, which would solve the original issue of the icons by themselves not being descriptive enough.