> You are confused ;-) > The dimmed -> normal was not noticeable *enough* , people werent > noticing the change in the icon, since the change was too subtle. > Folks missed the messages, since the icon became closer to the rest of > the icons. And did not draw attention. > Hence there was a need for a change involving a color.
> The nm animation is *not* supposed to draw attention. The user should > never bother to look. No, I'm not confused (not in this case =P). My point was *not* that NM should draw attention. It was that even for very simple things like drawing attention, some icons work better than others. I'm saying this because you are referring to the messaging menu drawing attention as something inherently obvious, and the NM status as something so complex that no icons would be good enough if the person doesn't know a priori about the stages. I'm saying that both are more or less the same thing: they can be obscured by a bad choice of icons and evidenced by a good choice of icons. And the current choice for NM is not a good one (more on that below). > As i mentioned only the user who cares or knows , will know what it > means ;-) And my point is that, right now, *even* the user who cares or knows might not know what it means. I've been using NM for years now, and I'm aware of the three stages and what they mean, but there's no obvious reason for me to deduce that back-and-forth means second stage. What you just said is one of many possible interpretations. (see my previous post) The fact that you *had* to explain the back and forth instead of simply state that its interpretation is obvious says a lot. :) And, regardless of that, I repeat: the average user might now *exactly* what each stage refers to, but the idea of "progress", at least, is useful, and the current icons do not properly show progress. With the original icons, the average user might not know that second stage means password request, but he surely can deduce that two green dots are more "advanced" than one. -- Network manager icons incomplete (do not differentiate stages and vpn) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553933 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
