On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 10:48 +0000, Conscious User wrote: > "everyone knows or would realize if an envelope changes color , it is > calling for attention" > > If that was true, then there would be no need to change the > dimmed->normal originally planned for Lucid to dimmed->green like it > recently happened. Mark acknowledged that people did not feel that > dimmed->normal passed the notion of "check me out" strongly enough. In > other words, even for something as simple and obvious as "something > calling for attention", careful choices must be made for > discoverability. >
You are confused ;-) The dimmed -> normal was not noticeable *enough* , people werent noticing the change in the icon, since the change was too subtle. Folks missed the messages, since the icon became closer to the rest of the icons. And did not draw attention. Hence there was a need for a change involving a color. The nm animation is *not* supposed to draw attention. The user should never bother to look. > For network manager it's the same. I'm not saying people should know > exactly which stage means, but knowing that they are different stages of > a progress would be helpful, and I don't think the current icons pass > this message strongly enough. You say that "it is much more clearer than > the default animation shipped with nm" but I can't imagine why. Original > version: > > 1 - zero green dots > 2 - one green dot > 3 - two green dots > > a very simple progress idea, which anyone can grasp. Plus, even if the > original stage 1 icons do not use a warning color, having two gray dots > pass the idea of "disabled", which is, by the way, on the lines what I > was thinking would be a good solution for stage 1: dimmed waves. > Compare this with the current version: > > 1 - wide waves > 2 - narrow waves > 3 - wide waves again > Again you are confused ,the "3" does not happen, narrow-> wide waves dont show up while you are connecting to wireless ;-) -- Network manager icons incomplete (do not differentiate stages and vpn) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/553933 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
