On Thursday 16 April 2009 20:19, Ben Klein wrote: > 2009/4/17 Scott Ritchie <[email protected]>: > > A user submitted a bug report to launchpad complaining that the Wine icon > > is not Tango compliant: [...] > > > > In short, it means the Wine icon looks very out of place [...] > > > > In short, it's ugly, but our real goal here is usability. [...]
-1 Consistency != Usability Sure, it might look out-of-place, but Windows applications are somewhat out-of-place on Linux. It's very ugliness probably makes it easier to find. If the default icon is changed, current users will have more trouble finding it again. > Seems like a lot of fuss over a few trivial details: > 1) The Wine system icon is ugly (I'm all in favour of changing it, but > you make a BIG fuss over it) > 2) If the icon is changed, it should be done in time for Ubuntu 9.10. > (I have BIG issue with this. Wine is not exclusive to Ubuntu [...] Not sure about this. If someone is planning a major release, it's nice to get little things in place for it, especially a "branding" item like this. > 3) The glass is the wrong shape. Is it really THAT important? If > anything it makes Wine distinguishable from the beverage. Do we get > any outraged wine enthusiasts posting on wine-users or the forum > telling us that we use the wrong glass in our logos? Agreed. -- David Lee Lambert ... Software Developer, member IEEE, ACM Cell phone: +1 586-873-8813 GPG key at http://www.lmert.com/keyring.txt IM: davidleelambert (Yahoo!) or [email protected] (MSN)
