From kde-i18n-doc  Thu Aug 27 23:57:53 2009
From: Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:57:53 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: color kcm translation (was: [KDE Usability] Description of
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Yuri Chornoivan wrote:
> [If you really need to keep layout clean maybe it will be better not
> using letters at all (just icons). It will significantly increase
> usability and lower threshold for users. :)

How do you represent "Inactive" with an icon? Keep in mind that said 
icon must resemble a character or so of text (monochrome, composed of 
lines) :-). Plus there is the technical difficulty of recoloring the 
icon so that it is an effective preview.

Though... in a sense you could say I am already doing that, using the 
"icons" 'a', 'i', '!', '=' and '+' for active, inactive, negative, 
neutral and positive (respectively).

Besides for ideographic languages it is clearly best to simply use the 
appropriate ideograph :-).

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