Icon orientation

Diana Fong dfong at redhat.com
Mon Aug 28 15:29:58 UTC 2006


Hi Joachim...

Yes, Echo does face the opposite way of Bluecurve's direction.  When I 
had first experimented with the perspective of the icons, the new 
direction made it more distinctive.  As I have worked on it for the last 
3 months, it seems less dramatic...probably because I stare at it 
everyday.  If user testing show that the other orientation is more 
visually pleasing, I would not be opposed to flipping it later.  While 
most icons can be flipped and used as is, there is a number that will 
need to be slightly altered for balance.

Diana



Joachim Frieben wrote:
> Comparing the "Echo" icon set to the standard "Bluecurve" one, it pops to my
> eyes that the perspective has changed from "left" to "right".
> This is disturbing in the sense that the panel menus and the majority of the
> panel icons are located in the left half of the screen. The current
> orientation makes them "look away" from the user who is located on the axis
> through the center of the screen.
> Is there a reason why this change of perspective has been adopted? I for
> myself would clearly appreciate that the icons were "looking towards" the
> screen center which is achieved by fliping them about the vertical axis.
> This operation would allow to make "Echo" consistent with "Bluecurve" in
> this respect.
>
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