I am running the latest Rawhide and had the following observations about the Echo theme icons: * The angle of the icons makes some of them difficult to visually distinguish properly, especially with a bright blue emblem in front of a gray icon. Examples include the music file icon and the presentation icon, even at the size seen by default on the desktop. I also wonder whether for some of these icons the backing "document" icon is really necessary. For instance, the video media files appear as a film reel, which is very sensible, so I wonder why the music files shouldn't simply appear as musical notes or similar. * The amount of detail in many of the icons makes it hard to discern the metaphor in many applications. Cut, Copy, Find, Replace, and Print all exhibit this problem. Reply to All in Evolution is particularly difficult, and menu items for Text Editor, Computer and Network don't really work either for this reason. I'm not sure how much of this might be remedied by returning to the links Máirín posted about designing for small sizes. * The "New" icon in Evolution is very tiny for some reason. I suspect that's just a one-off problem easily solved. * To extend one point made above, I wonder if it would be wise to try the icon set with a different foreground color. The blue currently used does not lend itself well to emphasizing an emblem in front of a gray-colored icon. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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