Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 10:32:01AM -0500: > And anyway, text labels have secondary importance > from the navigational point of view and as such, they are visual > nuisances; you recognize the icons after their shape or color rather > than after the text label.
The Apple guys were there already. It was a disaster, google for the ten worst anoying usability problems with mac dock. The icons could be used as "main navigational clue" if only they werent all identical. But they are. All the disk icons all identical. All the documents icons (for documents of the same kind) are identical. The text label is really the *primary* clue, and the icon only communicates the document/object type/format, which is not nearly as important as its identity. -- Radomir `The Sheep' Dopieralski <http://sheep.art.pl> () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ <www.asciiribbon.org> - against proprietary attachments -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
