Carlos Moreno wrote: > Hopefully constructive criticism, though I'm not sure about the > timing in terms of any upcoming changes. Anyway... > > I think my biggest complaint about the look of Ubuntu's interface > (the default GNOME, of course --- don't know about KDE, and > sorry to be blunt, but could not care any less about KDE) is the > "unicolor-ism" of the icons. Color is an incredibly powerful and > efficient mechanism to convey information, and it is IMHO being > sacrificed. Yes. Apparently the first thing the human mind recognize is color, the second is shape. > I have a Fedora box right here next to my main, Ubuntu one, and > the same exercise only requires looking in the general direction > of the window where the icons are --- the camera is so obvious > that it's like I simply take a glance at the screen, and the camera > "calls me". Another dramatic example is the "Oh no!" icon. So > extremely and instantaneously obvious to my eyes in the full- > color Fedora emblems; flat round orange thing with some white > lines in it (which is to say identical to every single other one) in > the Ubuntu emblems Fedora use the upstream GNOME emblems. Not sure why ubuntu don't do that as well. Nautilus tagging-system isn't as good as del.icio.us or flickr, but I'm happy you like the icons. - Andreas
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