On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 22:54 +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote on 06/03/10 16:14: > >... > > In my opinion, this is the worst design change since the decision to > > hide incoming IMs and phone calls from the user, and instead just > > subtly changing the color of a small icon. > >... > > I know this is a tangent, but: That wasn't an Ubuntu decision, it was a > series of unfortunate individual decisions. The Ubuntu position was, and > is, that a notification area item is not enough to advertise an incoming > IM or phone call, and that clients should open chat windows in the > background (and phone call windows in the foreground). The Empathy > developers disagreed, and continued relying on the notification area > item. Moving Empathy into the messaging menu just made things slightly > worse. And then the Human icon theme changes that arrived late in Karmic > made things slightly worse again. It was different people doing each of > these things. >
There is no point in trying to shunt the blame to the icon theme , when the icon changes were infact directed by the design team ;) There is also a comment[by design team] on a bug report mentioning the new-mail icon is good as-is and it is meant to be un-intrusive . Several icons were changed since the design team wanted minor improvements , why wasnt this mentioned? Now that it was fixed[in Humanity] for Lucid , the design team _again_ has a new icon far worse than what was earlier. Again not an Ubuntu decision? Now where is the decision being done? Are we late for Lucid too? ;) Let's get this fixed for Lucid atleast , without pointing fingers :) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-mono/+bug/532364 -- Cheers, Vish -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
