Étienne Bersac wrote: > As i noticed during the dapper cycle, the update-notifier icon is wrong. > It has one goal : tell the user to manually trigger update. I notice > that neither my father nor my mother nor any other membres of my family > understood that (that's almost all the clueless people i can observe). > Even if i tell them several times the meaning of this icon. > > up2date icon from RH is far better : a glowing red circle with an > exclamation mark. > > Also, there is something very confusing in this icon : it follows the > label's convention i.e. flat orange background + white sketch. > Notification icons are icons similar to menu icon. They must follow the > same guideline ! > > Ubuntu has very very nice notification area icons, thanks to Gnome (see > how ugly are Windows® Vista systray official icons !!!). > > So i found that this icons fail to warn the users (please tell be about > your clueless users) and does not fit well in the panel. > > What are we going to do in order to fix that issue ? >
Etienne, if I understand you correctly your main concern is that the icon is not "aggressive" (red) enough. I agree that the icon needs to attract attention, but am not sure I agree that it needs to be a big red warning sign. I just updated my package list to see the icon again and it seemed to me to be very adequately serious - and when you mouse over it, it tells you what you need to see. In short, I myself don't think it needs to change, but I'm sure Ken and other artists will consider suggested updates. Mark
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