Hi,

Even though it looks very nice at first sight, I think we should try to keep 
the visual language of a UI consistent. Icons are UI elements, widgets meant to 
provide user interaction with data or tools.

Icons are also little eyecatchers, and should best be silent and consistent 
(and not distract by changing position or shapes all the time). For that reason 
the current text string is nice noise-free. 

I can see the issue of improving the way we provide statistics. We also need 
better ways to communicate all kinds of states in Blender (which is abusively 
printed over the 3d window even in cases).

In some other programs, I've seen small statistic panels, that provide a useful 
input for statistic options as well. Might be a better solution to explore this.

Thanks,
 
-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   [email protected]    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

On 23 Dec, 2012, at 2:02, Harley Acheson wrote:

> Hello again,
> 
> I have updated the
> patch<http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=33573&group_id=9&atid=127>with
> lots of changes resulting from all the
> discussions on the BlenderArtists
> thread<http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?275390-Simplified-Header-Statistics-Display>.
> The response has been
> overwhelmingly positive.
> 
> If you just want a quick peek at what it looks like, the following image
> shows it off very well:
> http://projects.blender.org/tracker/download.php/9/127/33573/23279/StatisticsIcons.png
> 
> Harley
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