I noticed that the orange version of these icons has appeared in edgy. For what it's worth, I'd like to dissent on this decision.
They are very well done icons, there is no doubt. But they are all the same colour. I agree with the previous point about colour and form recognition. I have also seen how people use the emblems in Ubuntu. I do Ubuntu installs for lots of non-technical users and then provide ongoing support for them, so I see how they use Ubuntu, and one thing they always want to do is customise their system by changing the theme, background etc. They also always seem to discover nautilus emblems and use them for this purpose -- they stick multiple emblems on all their folders. They don't necessarily do this in the obvious way (photos emblem for photos folder, etc.), instead, they pick the most colourful, most fun emblems, and just stick them on random files and folders in order to make the whole thing more colourful, interesting and personal. This is something Ubuntu has that Windows XP does not, and that people actually use. These orange emblems, while as I've said they are very well done, they all look very similar, and they are not very fun or colourful. They use only two colours for the entire set of emblems. So adding the orange emblem set would destroy this use-case I've described, which is how every user I've seen uses emblems. I'm talking about non-geeks here, I have seen about 12 examples, they all used them in the same way. The colour version of the same emblems that was also posted in this thread would be far, far better than the orange version, in my opinion, but I'm still not sure if they're as fun and varied as the standard GNOME emblems. Ubuntu has plenty of orange. People will want to customise their desktop by giving it more colours. My two cents. Responses? On 10/4/06, Mark Shuttleworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ivan Sagalaev wrote: > > While such a unification might be good from the artists point of view > it's not that good for usability. Three primary characteristics by which > humans distinguish things are form, color and pattern. These icons > eliminate form recognition (they are all round) and the orange set > eliminates color recognition as well! > > > Ah - this is a very good point. I wonder if we can test that in any way? I > didn't like the non-Orange set so much because I wasn't sure of the palette > (especially the grey circles). But I see what you mean about the importance > of colour and form for differentiation. > > Mark > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > > > -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
