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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [A little OT] Oxygen icons survey
From:       "Jos Poortvliet" <jos () mijnkamer ! nl>
Date:       2007-04-24 9:08:23
Message-ID: 5c77e14b0704240208l1bbfc418ta45da1c8ab5254ff () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 4/24/07, Guillaume Laurent <glaurent@telegraph-road.org> wrote:
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> On Apr 24, 2007, at 3:24 AM, Stephen Leaf wrote:
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> On Monday 23 April 2007 18:21:06 Matthew Woehlke wrote:
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> Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
>

Weird, imho the log off was kind'a clear (esp with the remark 'and log in as
another user'). The lock was indeed not clear, just the other third button.
They should really put a lock on it...


--
> Guillaume
> http://telegraph-road.org
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On 4/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Guillaume Laurent</b> &lt;<a \
href="mailto:glaurent@telegraph-road.org">glaurent@telegraph-road.org</a>&gt; \
wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" \
style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; \
padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style=""><br><div><span class="q"><div>On Apr 24, 2007, at \
3:24 AM, Stephen Leaf wrote:</div><br></span><blockquote type="cite"><span \
class="q"><div style="margin: 0px;">On Monday 23 April 2007 18:21:06 Matthew Woehlke \
wrote: </div> </span><span class="q"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin: \
0px;">Aaron J. Seigo wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite"></blockquote><div \
style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;"> Being \
able to leave comments would have been nice, for instance in the</div><div \
style="margin: 0px;">&#39;lock/logoff/poweroff&#39; icon trio, only the \
&#39;poweroff&#39; one was remotely</div><div style="margin: 0px;">intuitive IMO, for \
the others I felt like I was really grasping at </div><div style="margin: \
0px;">straws for which one to pick. The file type icons were also pretty</div><div \
style="margin: 0px;">un-helpful.</div> </blockquote><div style="margin: 0px;">I \
couldn&#39;t agree more. I guessed at lock and log off. </div><div style="margin: \
0px;">The file type icons where so small that I had to look hard to \
distinguish<span>&nbsp;</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;">which was a document \
and spreadsheet.&nbsp;</div> </span></blockquote><br></div> <div><br></div><div>Same \
here. For lock and log off, I just picked the same as for &#39;power off&#39;. As for \
the file type icons, I&#39;m not sure that even at larger sizes they&#39;d be very \
easy to distinguish. As was said, a &quot;none of the above&quot; choice would have \
been useful. </div></div></blockquote><div><br>Weird, imho the log off was kind&#39;a \
clear (esp with the remark &#39;and log in as another user&#39;). The lock was indeed \
not clear, just the other third button. They should really put a lock on it... \
<br>&nbsp;</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid \
rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div \
style=""><span class="q"><div><span style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: \
0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: \
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word-spacing: 0px;"> <span style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; \
color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; \
font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: \
normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: \
0px;"> <div>--</div><div>Guillaume&nbsp;</div><div><a \
href="http://telegraph-road.org" target="_blank" onclick="return \
top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://telegraph-road.org</a></div><br></span></span> \
</div><br></span></div> </blockquote></div><br>



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