2007/2/2, Troy James Sobotka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

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Do we have any metaphors that seem appropriate?

Kenneth Wimer wrote:
> There is an open request for Apport icons.

> Apport needs icons for various purposes:
>  - panel tray if a crash happened while the user wasn't logged in, or
>  a system process crash

* Firecracker?
* Car accident?
* Broken Egg?



A broken gear wheel? Representing executables with gear wheels is pretty
standard... I guess...


 - 'Report a bug...' menu entries (both in the Panel and in
>  applications)

* Envelope in flight with bug on it?



* Envelope with broken gear wheel in it
* A broken gear wheel and a @ composed in a nice way

I guess I'm pretty much in favour of a gear-wheel-metaphor throughout the
icons...

Cheers,
Mikkel

 - icon in the Apport UI dialogs

What would this be of?  Is it representational of the application itself?

>
> Right now it uses a bomb with questionable copyright for the system
> tray, bug-buddy's icon for the dialog frames, and the default Gnome
> 'dialog alert' triangle for the menus. But it would be uber-cool to
> get a designated nice and descriptive icon for everything. It should
> convey the meanings 'bug, problem, crash', but needs to scale well
> down to 16x16 (dialog headers and panel tray).
>

If I am understanding you here, you want a singular icon to represent
everything here?  If so, perhaps we should consider:
* A simple image of a bug.
* An alert based 'comic' blurb (Spiked 'explosive' metaphor)



Sincerely,
TJS
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