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,
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Jörg Kreß