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Re: [opensuse-artwork] Request for icons for updater applet
- From: Joerg Kress <jkress@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 16:54:24 +0200
- Message-id: <1180018464.13071.28.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Jimmac!
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 20:36 +0200, Jakub Steiner wrote:
> I've already talked to the original author, Robert Lihm, but I'm happy
> you bring this up.
Glad, I can help ;-)
> Current Icons
> -------------
> The current icons are less than ideal on many levels. The color button
> (as the 'unifying' element) is just noise, especially at small sizes,
> which is what the default panel ships by default. The silhouette is
> exactly the same. Pretty much the only differentiating factor is the
> color. From usability perspective this is really bad.
>
> Proposal
> --------
> The naming spec [1] defines some icon names very much appropriate for
> our situation and we should aim to make use of themeability here.
> Usability should have the upper hand on branding.
I'm totally with you on that. Jan already raised this issue in the TODO
v 1.0 for the GNOME applet [1].
> updates available - software-update-available
> urgent updates - software-update-urgent
Not available yet. Just checked my directories and cvs upped tango. We
should bring this up in tango-artists.
> getting/applying updates - process-working
Don't you think an animation is to much of an distraction? I'd prefer a
static icon and using tooltips/popups to indicate details [2].
> refreshing sources - network-receive
This is a hard one. Your proposal might be to close to the nm-icon when
connected by cable. My current preference (view-refresh) is to close to
what we need for indicating the need for a reboot.
Maybe we should also consider a "merge" of refreshing and
getting/applying to one 'busy' and give additional info via tooltip.
[1] http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME_Updater_Applet
[2] http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME_Updater_Applet/Future_Plans
Cheers,
--
Jörg Kreß <jkress@xxxxxxx>
YaST2 Development
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On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 20:36 +0200, Jakub Steiner wrote:
> I've already talked to the original author, Robert Lihm, but I'm happy
> you bring this up.
Glad, I can help ;-)
> Current Icons
> -------------
> The current icons are less than ideal on many levels. The color button
> (as the 'unifying' element) is just noise, especially at small sizes,
> which is what the default panel ships by default. The silhouette is
> exactly the same. Pretty much the only differentiating factor is the
> color. From usability perspective this is really bad.
>
> Proposal
> --------
> The naming spec [1] defines some icon names very much appropriate for
> our situation and we should aim to make use of themeability here.
> Usability should have the upper hand on branding.
I'm totally with you on that. Jan already raised this issue in the TODO
v 1.0 for the GNOME applet [1].
> updates available - software-update-available
> urgent updates - software-update-urgent
Not available yet. Just checked my directories and cvs upped tango. We
should bring this up in tango-artists.
> getting/applying updates - process-working
Don't you think an animation is to much of an distraction? I'd prefer a
static icon and using tooltips/popups to indicate details [2].
> refreshing sources - network-receive
This is a hard one. Your proposal might be to close to the nm-icon when
connected by cable. My current preference (view-refresh) is to close to
what we need for indicating the need for a reboot.
Maybe we should also consider a "merge" of refreshing and
getting/applying to one 'busy' and give additional info via tooltip.
[1] http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME_Updater_Applet
[2] http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME_Updater_Applet/Future_Plans
Cheers,
--
Jörg Kreß <jkress@xxxxxxx>
YaST2 Development
_________________________________________________________________
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
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