El sáb, 10-02-2007 a las 19:26 +0100, Nacho de los Ríos Tormo escribió: > It happens a lot more than you might think, and there are some examples > that might be found hilarious. In Unix, a traditional icon for a command > shell is ... a shell! Unfortunately, it reads as "clam" or "snail" in > other languages. In Webmin (does anybody still use it?), the icon for a > log -- as in "captain's log" -- was a piece of wood (which generally > reads as "firewood"). And in an FPGA design program I used, the icon for > "save" was the image of a pig!
In short, we should make the artwork based on the concepts, and not the words. The best icon for a program error would be an explosion, a broken computer, even a broken program window could do, as Nacho said. That can always be associated with a broken program. I haven't seen many icons that could be misinterpreted in Spanish, only bug icons and log icons. In Spanish a computer program log is a "historial" o "bitácora", none of these terms are related to a tree or wood in any form. Maybe a paper roll from a seismograph or EEG could be a lot more related to a program log concept, and still be understandable at a very small size. Most other icons are fine, they tend to represent the concepts. The idea of locale-based icons is great, but of course it would be a huge task to undertake for only a few icons that can be easily with universally understandable conceptual ones. There are many icons already that are mostly universal in most cultures, like those used to alert drivers, or workers, and those in use at airports. They are by design easily recognizable and we can use them in software, changing colors, shapes, shadows, etc, we can give them a nice touch that can set them apart from other graphical environments. By the way, the orange ball with a lot of electrical activity, I don't find it meaning "Internet" in any language, unless one is familiar with a similar blue icon from Apple MacOS X, that could be interpreted as energy streams running across the Earth surface and connected in a mesh. I know Ubuntu is brown/orange, but our planet is definitely blue and we need some imagination to associate that orange ball with the Earth. It looks like it's burning or something. -- Jean Pierre Rupp Xeno-Genesis www.xeno-genesis.com
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