On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 15:28 +0400, Ivan Sagalaev wrote: > Troy James Sobotka wrote: > > Strengths: > > * Unified -- especially the orange set. > > While such a unification might be good from the artists point of view > it's not that good for usability. Three primary characteristics by which > humans distinguish things are form, color and pattern. These icons > eliminate form recognition (they are all round) and the orange set > eliminates color recognition as well!
It is hard to debate the color recagnition, but on the form recognition I must admit that I disagree. Form-wise I actually think these emblems stand better than the current ones. Try and compare Read Only, Documents, Draft, Mail and Sales. How are they for form recognition in the standard set? I actually think they do good in Erics layout. The default emblems does also have a more complex structure which makes them more difficult to tell apart in my eyes. I look at the new emblems like this: The orange is just a background. The real form recognition goes on between the white outlines. > While this may seem highly theoretic but I can assure that it's true in > practice. I use emblems a lot for designating not only my photos, docs > and music folder but also my different programming projects. Current > icons work just great, I almost never think even a millisecond before > clicking the right folder. New icons make me fill like I suddenly become > blind :-( > I'm sorry if I sound a bit harsh... The icons themselves are beautiful > but they aren't usable... Well, I have to disagree, but again we can't really talk usability based on personal preferences. Cheers, Mikkel -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art