Hi Sean, I am only a user so I am only working from the screenshot. I assume this is the "administrator" account theme because a local user wouldn't get access to the router settings. I assume a local user account theme would look more like a Facebook Account. I assume when you login into the administrator account home page you would get a status page for router and server applications e.g. email, xmpp, web server. I think you should keep the FreedomBox logo, but drop the FreedomBox Dashboard words. This will free up space for smartphones. Icons are important for smartphones, but it's a very hard thing to get right. In Australia, the eye symbol indicates CCTV. I think Firefox's Mask symbol is a good Privacy symbol - super hero's wear masks to protect their identities!
> > > >> The top bar isn't "too" busy in my opinion, but unnecessarily busy. > >> The icons are rather small and they don't really help identifying > the > >> meaning of the content that they present. > >> I probably would omit them and make use of the extra space that gets > >> available; maybe size up the font! > >> Same is true for the secondary menu. > > I agree that we need to find better ways to display the main > categories > > and make them the focus of the design. I do, however, think the > toolbar > > is the right size. Agree > > You probably misunderstood me - I meant to scale up the font only, not > the whole bar. Agree > > > So, the wise thing to do would be moving the main > > categories elsewhere. and changing the structure of the page around. > > > > I do like the little icons...at least in the side menu I think the > open > > eye next to privacy is probably the best example of something that > fits > > perfectly. I'd rather change these icons where necessary than remove > > them completely. > > I'm not completely against icons, they certainly are decorative, > appealing and sometimes really useful! > The problem is that if just some work sufficiently - you have to > question using them on every menu item. > So I agree that we might work on creating a complete set, but as long > as > there are mainly vague icons that come from a standard iconset with > questionable semantic meaning we should better not use them at all. > I think it's too early to tell what the taskbar items should be other than status (home page), account and help. I think you are on the right track for a theme. Time and feedback will bring the right icons and taskbar and menu items. It's a pity there isn't a demo site where I could go through the menu items, but I'm still happy to look at the screenshots! - fiftyfour - _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
