Hello to all Apologies for suddenly entering a conversation mid thread and doubly so as this is my first posting to the list, thus breaching two of the most important rules of listiquette in one go. That wasn't a boast either, i do apologise and will do the intro thing in another post real soonish.
The thing is that i reckon the icons used by a tool/app _are_ important in deciding just how popular any given newish app becomes - which is sad given that it shd be the tool's usability and performance which mostly decides this - but folk being what they are look and feel get to be king and queen of this domain. I used popular in the sense of usage/uptake by numbers of normal users, the speed and ease of that adoption and then the stickability, once they are using it they stay with it, and *not* in the sense of much chattered about by the dev community with lots of blog posts &c but no real market share(as they say.) Oh shit - please don't think, even for an instance, that i'm placing Tracker in that latter catagory, no way! Onwards then: > >> What about something like > >> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/artwork/Oxygen/theme/svg/actions/find.svg?rev=598903 > >> > >> I like the icon, because it pictures the word "track"er in a nice way. Now _that_ is more like it ~ it states the obvious in a familiar way ~ ie it's using symbols people will "recognise" the meaning / intention of straight away ~ no head scratching ~ no "what the ___?" ~ just an "ah yeah right, super sleuth dude, a tracker downer of lost and missing things" Plus it looks good! It's clean & clear visually - no clutter or confusion, no mixed messages. I sure as hell hope that this icon is available to the Tracker project. It would be a real good thing if it were to become the official Tracker icon - or the strongly preferred first choice/default icon if there is no "official" branding. I shd point out that i have no connections to or with the people/person who designed it in any way shape or form. I'm totally ignorant in that respect, as i am re any/all the other people on this list, whom i also know only thru their presence t/here. > thanks thats very nice. Will add shortly > -- > Mr Jamie McCracken Jamie - you were meaning the one i've just been ranting on, yes? The one last seen here => http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/artwork/Oxygen/theme/svg/actions/find.svg?rev=598903 Congrats by the way on an excellent tool - now that was long overdue so i'll say it again - congrats and many thanks for an excellent tool. so all for now i pre . _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
