OpenOffice.org icons

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

bugzilla added:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=156424

lør, 30.04.2005 kl. 00.07 skrev Wilbur Harvey:
> I think that they are terrible. Although it is possible to learn what
> they are, it is not obvious. The old ones were much better.
> Wilbur
> 
> nodata wrote: 
> > > On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 09:35 +0200, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
> > >     
> > > > nodata wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >       
> > > > > Quick question - does anyone find the new openoffice.org icons
> > > > >         
> > > > difficult
> > > >       
> > > > > to understand?
> > > > > 
> > > > >         
> > > > not really, afair
> > > > 
> > > > writer = lines
> > > > calc = table
> > > > impress = monitor/beamer
> > > >       
> > > database =  silo
> > > 
> > > Ah, the age old question of iconography.   Icons only mean something if
> > > you know what they mean (which is of course self serving).
> > > 
> > > Someone once told me that you should never teach students how to use a
> > > program based on the icons in the application because they may well mean
> > > nothing in similar applications and then the person will have troubles
> > > using alternative (but comparable) software.
> > > 
> > > I think it's a fair cop.  Take a look at lots of applications and
> > > imagine all the other meanings icons could have if you didn't know what
> > > they did and I think you'll get the gist.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Rodd
> > > 
> > >     
> > My icons are blue or green, with a feint squiggle. If you squint at the
> > squiggle, you can decipher them.
> > Three feint squiggles in a row on dark blue means Writer.
> > Some faint box squiggles in a grid means Calc.
> > 
> >   
> 
> 
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