Shutdown icon: Re: Since a recent update of FC5T2 option to log in as another user on log out has dissapeared.

Richard Hally rhally at mindspring.com
Mon Jan 23 19:43:28 UTC 2006


David Timms wrote:
> David Nielsen wrote:
> 
>> man, 23 01 2006 kl. 09:46 -0800, skrev Jesse Keating:
>>  
>>
>>> I think the look they were going for was a light switch in the off
>>> position.  Are light switches sufficiently i18n enough?  The image would
>>> be better served to be in the angled position that a lot of bluecurve
>>> type icons are in.  In fact, I think the icon set does stand out against
>>> the bluecurve icons that are visible in other places.  Not very unified
>>> in look.
>>>   
> Only in australia off is the opposite position to in the states... as 
> someone mentioned not that i18n, even for english speakers.
> Perhaps a shutdown icon of a "jack in the box being pushed back in his 
> box by a hand" (or slamming a door)...just to get some ideas flowing.
> 
When you click on the "shut down" menu item, you get a message box with 
"are you sure you want to shut the system down now". That box also has a 
nice looking switch at the beginning of the line. That graphic (only a 
little smaller) would look good on the menu.

Richard




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