On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 13:05 +0000, Conscious User wrote: > > 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, I would disagree , you know what it means ;)
And this whole discussion a bit of a moot point , what you are requesting is something to change the shape or more dots and making it more obvious. Which is not what is required. It would be better to propose a solution[without changing shape or color] rather than nit-pick. -- 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
