You should not need to specify anything on the icon if the test below has a meaning, that is it can say : "Set To: HTTP Header", as opposed to Property. See https://wso2.org/jira/browse/ESBJAVA-1811- You need to cater for this enhancement in the ESB diagram design.
+1 to make to have a preference to toggle between icon+text vs. just icon. Isabelle. __________________________________________________ Isabelle Mauny Director, Product Management; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com/ email: [email protected] - mobile (Spain) : +34 616050684 - mobile (Sri Lanka) +94 (0)774777663 On Aug 5, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Praveena Sarathchandra <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm +1 for using text below icons, because these are not like standard icons > that people are used to. Maybe you can let the user toggle the text on/off > using a shortcut key. Also, because the size of these icons are small, they > should not have any complex designs. You can have a look at Entypo[1] or > Fontawesome[2] icon fonts for some inspiration. > > Regarding the color scheme, I think it'd be better if you can follow a > pastel-like color scheme. Diagrams would look easy on the eye when there are > so many different kinds of elements in them. For this you can try Kuler[3] to > find one of your choice. > > [1] http://www.entypo.com/ > [2] http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/ > [3] https://kuler.adobe.com/pastel-art-colors/ > > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Chanaka Jayasena <[email protected]> wrote: > We had an internal discussion about the icons and designs. Plan is to get the > line art representation of the 1st and 4th concepts and draw the icons, > rather than using complex artwork. The icons will be grouped according to > what is used in ESB web console. These grouped icons will be differentiated > by the shape of the icon container, and the color of the icon.The text in the > icons will be kept since the repeating text below the icons should be the > description that the user is adding. Unfortunately my previous images does > not represent that idea. I am in the process of creating a new screen to > visualize the proposed concept. > > thanks, > Chanaka > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Samisa Abeysinghe <[email protected]> wrote: > So different colors is a good point as far as picking the difference goes. > But they got to be noticeably different. > > The good thing about concept one is the clear imaging in there. So we need a > combination of concept one and three where we could have clear imaging and > clear color based differentiation to help pick the right one to match the > need from the bunch of options available, while you are at the task of > developing. > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Kasun Indrasiri <[email protected]> wrote: > - We thought of including the text along with the icon, because all mediators > cannot be represented with just an icon. EIPs can be used for few mediators, > but not all mediators cannot be represented with EIP icons. And the text > below the icon can be anything (such as a comment) that user wants to add > (which will be saved as the sequence/mediation description in the config). > - I prefer the icon shape as with concept-3 with a different color scheme > (and with out fancy colored icons inside) > > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Chanaka Jayasena <[email protected]> wrote: > Designing meaningful Icons for "Fault mediator" , "Aggregate Mediator" can be > easy enough, but for complex synarios it will be hard to represent the idea > and grasp the idea from the icon as well. From the users perspective when > user tries to read a flow of elements, it will be easy for the user if there > is a word attached to it where he can read it on the spot rather than try to > find it by going through a documentation. I personally like the first one but > the third one is more color contrasting, which adds one more plus point for > the users to bind memories to associated color patterns of icons. One minus > point in the third one I see is that, the text representation is bit > inconsistent compared to the first one. > > thanks, > Chanaka > > On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Isuru Perera <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Sanjiva Weerawarana <[email protected]> wrote: > Personally I don't like them .. they're going to be too complicated at the > 50x50 type size they're in reality. Second, the words in the icons don't make > sense IMO. > Yes. > I think the words are not needed on icons. We just have to make sure the icon > is meaningful. > Third the colors seem too strong? Of course I'm color blind so my color > choices are not one to bet on. > > > > > -- > Isuru Perera > > Senior Software Engineer | WSO2, Inc. | http://wso2.com/ > Lean . Enterprise . Middleware > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/chrishantha | LinkedIn: > http://lk.linkedin.com/in/chrishantha/ > > _______________________________________________ > Architecture mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture > > > > > -- > Chanaka Jayasena > Senior Software Engineer; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com/ > email: [email protected]; cell: +94 77 785 5565 > blog: http://chanaka3d.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > Architecture mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture > > > > > -- > Kasun Indrasiri > Software Architect > WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com > lean.enterprise.middleware > > cell: +94 71 536 4128 > Blog : http://kasunpanorama.blogspot.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Architecture mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture > > > > > -- > Thanks, > Samisa... > > Samisa Abeysinghe > VP Engineering > WSO2 Inc. > http://wso2.com > http://wso2.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Architecture mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture > > > > > -- > Chanaka Jayasena > Senior Software Engineer; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com/ > email: [email protected]; cell: +94 77 785 5565 > blog: http://chanaka3d.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > Architecture mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture > > > > > -- > Best regards, > > Praveena Sarathchandra, > > Software Engineer, > WSO2, Inc. > lean . enterprise . middleware > > praveena.me | +94718732203 > > _______________________________________________ > Architecture mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture
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