---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Reece Dunn <[email protected]> Date: 2009/9/19 Subject: Re: Wine in Tango To: Henri Verbeet <[email protected]>
2009/9/19 Henri Verbeet <[email protected]>: > 2009/9/19 Joel Holdsworth <[email protected]>: >> On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 21:43 +0200, Henri Verbeet wrote: >>> 2009/9/19 Vitaliy Margolen <[email protected]>: >>> > - The European stop sign is not known/used in US. It has no meaning to >>> > most >>> > people. >>> Actually, assuming you mean >>> http://www.airwebreathe.org.uk/wine-icon/oic_hand-48.png, that's not a >>> stop sign in Europe either. It generally means "no entry", and I was >>> under the impression it's used in that way in the US as well. Not that >>> that makes it any more appropriate as an "error" sign. (Doesn't gnome >>> use that one as well though? I guess that would at least make it >>> recognizable to some people.) >> >> It's the dialog error icon from the Tango base set. Does that carry any >> weight? maybe... maybe not. It seemed clear enough to me though. >> > Possibly, consistency is generally a good thing. I can't say I pay a > whole lot of attention to the icons in messageboxes, but I could see > how this one wouldn't be entirely clear on its own to a new user. The > color red probably does more to convey the message "error" than the > sign. The error icon needs to be recognisable as well (aside from colour) for people with red-green colour blindness. A no entry sign doesn't really make sense here (although, it is the correct image from a tango perspective). Tango does have an unofficial (X) 'traditional' version (ref: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tango_icons), so it would probably be better to use that instead. Not sure what the Oxygen icon looks like. ==== On the whole, these icons are a major improvement. Well done. Q: For the small 16x16 icons, why do some have the wine glass and some don't (for the ones that have a wine glass on the larger versions)? - Reece
