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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Will the icons be updated for KDE 3?
From:       Peter Simonsson <psn () linux ! se>
Date:       2001-12-04 10:45:59
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tisdagen den 4 december 2001 10.37 skrev Klas Kalass:
> Am Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2001 03:03 schrieb Karol Szwed:
> > On Tuesday 04 December 2001 07:37, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> > > On Monday 03 December 2001 21:34, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 02 December 2001 21:27, Chris January wrote:
> > > > |   A friend of mine, used to Linux, Gnome and Enlightenment, was
> > > > | using my desktop the other day. They were trying to launch a web
> > > > | browser and they were going through each of the icons in turn.
> > > > | After examining each one, she chose Konqeuror's icon (obviously
> > > > | something right there). But she made a comment to the effect,
> > > > | "what's the big orange E for?". So - to get to my
> > > >
> > > > What's the problem with "big orange E"?
> > > > I like it.
> > > > Would you prefer to have it *smaller*, or in other color (Blue, Lime,
> > > > etc.)?
> > >
> > > Most of all it is really ugly. I was really proud of the (default)
> > > beautyfull KDE when I installed it at my university, but once I had
> > > compiled kdenetworks. I really hated the kmail icon as an eyesore,
> > > allthough it had never bothered my on my home machine. (it had always
> > > just been there)
> >
> > Theres a more funamental problem with any icons using letters - they make
> > little sense in other languages. What does 'E' mean in languages other
> > than English? Probably very little.
>
> While this is true almost always , this could be a case where it doesn't
> hold true. At least in Germany we call "E-Mail" "E-Mail". So the problem is
> that one needs to know the meaning of "Mail" to successfully make the
> association with the envelope.
> I can imagine that unexperienced people think of e-mail as messages written
> on a piece of paper, not necessarily as mails (and therefore envelope). But
> I don't have a better idea either.
> And then there is the argument that most people might know Outlook and are
> likely to understand a similar icon.
>
Check out the icon in iKons 0.5rc1 it's nice and understandable.

// Peter S
 
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