Hi folks! Over the past few years I sensed a need for a less 'noisy' and colorful style for graphical representation of certain actions and status. Blown up icons for on screen display when you increase brightness, attach a display, event notifications in the system tray, that sort of thing. Additionally GNOME has dropped using icons in menus as the huge number of colorful icons ended up creating visual noise rather than helping to aid the eye spatially. I feel like we've spilled the baby along with the bathtub there though. And working on the Moblin icon theme I've really grown to like its simplistic style, especially next to menu items -- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24178/menu-icons.png
We should start a discussion on how to extend the existing icon-related specs to allow the introduction of such simple symbols. There's been some talks about this in the Ubuntu camp, but I think it makes sense to move this upstream as all distributions face similar issues. I also believe a simple stencil style would work across desktop environments so it would be ideal to discuss here. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24178/osd/existing.png vs http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24178/osd/stencil.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24178/osd/kde-stencil.png We've already discussed this a bit with GNOME and KDE designers, but this mailing list sounds like a more appropriate place. Here's something to work from -- http://gist.github.com/247170 Most of this deals with style, but it would be nice to see the technical aspect discussed. Is the suffix the best way to approach this? How do we treat these stencils as text in terms of color? Let's get the ball rolling! -- Jakub Steiner <jim...@gmail.com> http://jimmac.musichall.cz _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg