> .. or a watch face I claim responsibilty for the icon.
The only intuitive interface is the mother's breast. After that, it is what is familiar. I gave Plucker to people who never used it before and told them to ask everytime something that they didn't get right away. Other elements had some sort of precedent: a file folder icon opens a list of files, a bookmark icon holds bookmarks. This was the UI element that they didn't know straight off. Their response to me telling them its function is to inform you that the application is currenlty busy rendering is "Oh, It's like an hourglass or watchface". I don't see the merit of forcing a learning curve of different icons not used elsewhere. For clockfaces / watchfaces option, it seemed on a PDA it seemed the clockfaces are used to indicate a clock app, or a time of an appointment. Therefore down to hourglass of the big two. The argument of "I don't see what is bad, except for that is what so many other applications use" is not really a good argument against using a more familiar icon, in my humble opinion. I think premise should be to reduce learning curve, not increase it and have to dig through the docs to try and figure out what an icon is indicating. With regards to "prettiness", I guess should first consider what the icon should be, then time can be spent on maximizing prettiness also. But both a thought bubble and hourglass were created for all color depths, and all are in CVS. It is no problem to wind them back, but I think it is a step backwards on out-of-the-box useability. Best wishes, Robert
