On 3/19/10, Mark Shuttleworth <m...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On 19/03/10 02:22, Dylan McCall wrote: >> This begs the question: Why on Earth was the coloured wants-attention >> icon dropped? Could indicator-messages differentiate the importance of >> events and use a different icon accordingly? (For example, coloured >> icon for actual messages, just lit up for when contacts log in). > > The spectrum of attention-grabbiness, if you want to think of it that > way, is: > > - outline > - dimmed > - full mono > - green > - orange > - red > > We don't flash :-) > > The coloured wants-attention messaging icon was nuked at my request > because it was 3D, and our icons should be flat. I'm expecting a flat > green version that we can test, soon. Yesterday would have been nice :-) > > The real question is one of taste and urgency. How urgent is a message, > really? If it's something that we never want anyone to miss, we should > go green. Otherwise, we could use the raise from dim to bright mono. >
Just to cap off that line of discussion: Thanks for all the clarification! It helped a lot. Dylan (I guess reading the changelog would have answered a portion of that, too :o) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
