Op 21-jun-2006, om 20:08 heeft Sean Hammond het volgende geschreven:
With the default icon theme in dapper (human) there's a couple of
icons I really don't like:
* The 'Quit' button
* The 'X' icon appearing on 'Close' buttons
and it also seems to introduce some rendering errors. So I switched to
tangerine instead, which additionally has a bit of a cleaner, clearer
feel to it.
I guess these problems with the human icons could be fixed and SVG
versions provided with a little more work though.
I'm not sure I really understand why the human icon theme was
developed, given that tangerine exists, but I assume this has already
been discussed.
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I agree with you on those two things. There are also other
disagreements that I have with the Human theme. Notably, it doesn't
really seem to follow any kind of standard. Some of the icons are
displayed with a totally different point of view; what's are the
criteria? It also seems to do something which I would personally like
to prevent for Edgy: it goes overboard with the "orangification" of
the system. There isn't a need for everything to be orange. It could
even be considered that making keeping common icons in more neutral
colors will accentuate those icons that _are_ orange.
If we look at Mac OS X, for example, we see that the abundant usage
of gray dwarfs the large amount of blue that is used and thus reduces
blue to an effective accent color. It gives much more room for
typical icons of programs and other OS-related designs that are not
blue. The system has a very neutral appearance, despite the strong
presence of the Aqua theme. This is something that we should aim for
with Ubuntu as well.
If we look at, for example, the "X" icon on the "Close" buttons, we
see a gigantic orange knob with a large X in it. I don't see this as
a valid design choice. Old themes have, very effectively, used simple
and small ballot V and X icons. They are exactly what is required in
a common icon that will be shown in almost every program that will
ever run on the system: non-intrusive.
I believe that such things are possible to resolve, but we do not
have proper control over Human to do so. To me, Tangerine and Tango
feels like a much better alternative, simply for the fact that they
adhere much more to sane design principles and due to their openness.
Michiel
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