[Echo] New trash related icons

Luya Tshimbalanga luya at fedoraproject.org
Sat Sep 20 20:37:45 UTC 2008


Martin Sourada a écrit :
> The problem with Diana's version is usability. Due to the chosen colour
> combination and shape it's pretty hard to make it look crisp and
> distinctive in smaller sizes.
>
> So I decided to try metal/blue glass combination for the trash icon with
> more traditional shape. From usability POV it's indeed by far better
> than Diana's design, but as you noted the current incarnation fails to
> impress. I neither want to go with this icon (as is now), nor with
> Diana's design. It's an early "research" design that follows our current
> Echo style very closely and is very distinctive, though simple-looking.
>
> I'd like the broader audience here on art list to comment on it, improve
> it and finally come to some design that would satisfy both our usability
> needs *and* our wants to impress.
>
> So basically my intentions with this very icon is to think about it more
> deeply, throughoutly and collaboratively because it's an icon that has
> very wide usage.
>
> Take my design as a trigger for such discussion. Note however that it's
> by no means necessary to fix this icon in time for F10, we still have
> much of work to do on icons that are missing altogether, it just
> happened that I had the idea now so in order to not forgot, I put it
> together...
>   
Let´s put that on hold for now and write a ticket for say 0.5 release of
echo-icon-them as
enhancement. Once essential icons are made, we will back on that
discussion. =)


Luya


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