Re: (F13, KDE) ugly, grey system tray icons after update

2010-11-09 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
After doing an F13 update today, in which a load of KDE packages got updated, my system tray now contains drab, grey, hard-to-see icons instead of the nice coloured ones it had previously. The previous update (before the one that broke the icons) was on 2nd November, so this is due to

Re: (F13, KDE) ugly, grey system tray icons after update

2010-11-09 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 05:55 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: The thing that kills me about icons all the time is the reason they exist at all. The theory is that the human brain does visual recognition better than text recognition, so the familiar icons improve recognition time and the usability of

Re: (F13, KDE) ugly, grey system tray icons after update

2010-11-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 04:12:39 -0600 Steven P. Ulrick wrote: these monochromatic icons really are worse The thing that kills me about icons all the time is the reason they exist at all. The theory is that the human brain does visual recognition better than text recognition, so the familiar icons

Re: (F13, KDE) ugly, grey system tray icons after update

2010-11-09 Thread Manuel Escudero
2010/11/9 Tim ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 05:55 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: The thing that kills me about icons all the time is the reason they exist at all. The theory is that the human brain does visual recognition better than text recognition, so the familiar

(F13, KDE) ugly, grey system tray icons after update

2010-11-08 Thread Dean S. Messing
After doing an F13 update today, in which a load of KDE packages got updated, my system tray now contains drab, grey, hard-to-see icons instead of the nice coloured ones it had previously. The previous update (before the one that broke the icons) was on 2nd November, so this is due to stuff

Re: (F13, KDE) ugly, grey system tray icons after update

2010-11-08 Thread Chris Smart
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Dean S. Messing de...@sharplabs.com wrote: Clues? Do you mean the, monochromatic icons [which] give visual clarity, and more consistent user interactions improve usability - introduced in 4.5? http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.5/plasma.php -c -- users

Re: (F13, KDE) ugly, grey system tray icons after update

2010-11-08 Thread Dean S. Messing
Clues? Do you mean the, monochromatic icons [which] give visual clarity, and more consistent user interactions improve usability - introduced in 4.5? http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.5/plasma.php What a laugh. Now, how to I revert to 4.4 ½:-) -- users mailing list