Paul W. Frields wrote: > 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. > Could you provide images that can be submitted on wiki to see the problem?For me, it is very hard to analyze the issue without image. > * 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. > Mostly because these icons don't have their small size versions yet. I agree that mail-reply-all icons is complex due to characters color. Using a modified Ben's icon may work. > * 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. > We will check out. Currently, the emphasis is to complete the stock icons listed [1] then focus on these issues. _______________________________________________ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list
