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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Default icon set
From:       Uno Engborg <uno () webworks ! se>
Date:       2005-02-24 20:55:12
Message-ID: 421E3F30.3010406 () webworks ! se
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Maurizio Colucci wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'd like to suggest to change the default icon set from crystal to 
> nuvola 1.0. The advantages would be:

I agree, the current iconset is not very good. As you say it is too 
shiny, but whats worse is that it is graphically
indistinct. Just look at the up arrow and compare to  the little house 
used on the konqueror toolbar, and who knows that the semitransparant 
peice of pipe on the desktop is a trashcan. Sometimes it is misleading  
Look at the TT used for fonts, that easily could lead the user to 
believe that only truetype fonts could be used.

So, changeing the default icon set is indeed very much needed.

But what is even more needed is good guidline on how to create graphics 
for KDE. Guidlines that includes usability aspects of the graphics. In 
my oppinion we need some kind of  guidlines for what graphical forms to 
use for different things. E.g. in the old Mac OS runnable things had 
should have a rombic appearance, documents should have dog ears in their 
upper right corner etc. There should be standards on where to write 
document type texts etc.

All this is probably best discussed on the kde-artists list.

Regards
Uno Engborg
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