'Re: [A little OT] Oxygen icons survey'

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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [A little OT] Oxygen icons survey
From:       Guillaume Laurent <glaurent () telegraph-road ! org>
Date:       2007-04-24 8:48:23
Message-ID: 232B5EBC-3B88-4E52-A476-4BB269FE74EF () telegraph-road ! org
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On Apr 24, 2007, at 3:24 AM, Stephen Leaf wrote:

> On Monday 23 April 2007 18:21:06 Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
>>
>> Being able to leave comments would have been nice, for instance in  
>> the
>> 'lock/logoff/poweroff' icon trio, only the 'poweroff' one was  
>> remotely
>> intuitive IMO, for the others I felt like I was really grasping at
>> straws for which one to pick. The file type icons were also pretty
>> un-helpful.
> I couldn't agree more. I guessed at lock and log off.
> The file type icons where so small that I had to look hard to  
> distinguish
> which was a document and spreadsheet.


Same here. For lock and log off, I just picked the same as for 'power  
off'. As for the file type icons, I'm not sure that even at larger  
sizes they'd be very easy to distinguish. As was said, a "none of the  
above" choice would have been useful.

--
Guillaume
http://telegraph-road.org



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