Nacho de los Ríos Tormo wrote: > I profoundly dislike the crumpled paper icon because a) it takes hard > observation to deduce it is that and b) it is a confusing metaphor for > anybody in any culture, especially when sitting side by side with a > trashcan, a red cross and a shredder. > Agree that this combination of icons are quite bad in that case, and it's super-hard for application developers to predict this because of theming. :( Where is this btw? Evolution? > As for the shredder, there are ethnicity, technological and education > level issues that make it a very bad metaphor. Shredders are not > household items in every country, not everybody in every office has > access to one in most places, even if they've seen one and know what it > is, and youngsters may have never seen one in their life. On top of > being a very bad metaphor, the Tango shredder is a very bad icon, > because a shredder itself has not much detail, so after iconification > nothing much remains to recocnize it. And the low contrast plays against it. > The old edit-delete icon in tango-icon-theme looked like this: http://www.andreasn.se/diverse/temp/tango/22/edit-delete.png Had to scrap that though, as it looked too much like a warning sign. Before the warning sign GNOME had a trash can for delete (and gnome-icon-theme still use this metaphor) http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnome-icon-theme/22x22/actions/edit-delete.png?rev=1.1. That didn't work very well though, as things didn't move to the trash when deleting stuff in evolution for example. Might have been some kind of X before that, but that also looks too much as a warning sign and saying "don't do this" mostly.
I believe there can be some extent of learnability of icons in a interface, provided that they are not too many symbols to learn. Someone might have some time looking into the metaphor again after Christmas (and perhaps do some user testing, who knows), but I'm afraid we're all very busy with other icons at the moment. Thanks for your time. - Andreas -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
