---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Reece Dunn msclrhd@googlemail.com Date: 2009/9/19 Subject: Re: Wine in Tango To: Henri Verbeet hverbeet@gmail.com
2009/9/19 Henri Verbeet hverbeet@gmail.com:
2009/9/19 Joel Holdsworth joel@airwebreathe.org.uk:
On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 21:43 +0200, Henri Verbeet wrote:
2009/9/19 Vitaliy Margolen wine-devel@kievinfo.com:
- The European stop sign is not known/used in US. It has no meaning to most
people.
Actually, assuming you mean http://www.airwebreathe.org.uk/wine-icon/oic_hand-48.png, that's not a stop sign in Europe either. It generally means "no entry", and I was under the impression it's used in that way in the US as well. Not that that makes it any more appropriate as an "error" sign. (Doesn't gnome use that one as well though? I guess that would at least make it recognizable to some people.)
It's the dialog error icon from the Tango base set. Does that carry any weight? maybe... maybe not. It seemed clear enough to me though.
Possibly, consistency is generally a good thing. I can't say I pay a whole lot of attention to the icons in messageboxes, but I could see how this one wouldn't be entirely clear on its own to a new user. The color red probably does more to convey the message "error" than the sign.
The error icon needs to be recognisable as well (aside from colour) for people with red-green colour blindness.
A no entry sign doesn't really make sense here (although, it is the correct image from a tango perspective). Tango does have an unofficial (X) 'traditional' version (ref: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tango_icons), so it would probably be better to use that instead.
Not sure what the Oxygen icon looks like.
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On the whole, these icons are a major improvement. Well done.
Q: For the small 16x16 icons, why do some have the wine glass and some don't (for the ones that have a wine glass on the larger versions)?
- Reece