#24491: Admin's "no" icon is incorrect and should be replaced
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Reporter: EvilDMP | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: contrib.admin | Version: 1.7
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 1
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The admin uses pretty yes/no icons:
* yes,
https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/admin/static/admin/img
/icon-yes.gif, which displays as
[[Image(https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/admin/static/admin/img
/icon-yes.gif?raw=true)]]
* no,
https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/admin/static/admin/img
/icon-no.gif, which displays as
[[Image(https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/admin/static/admin/img
/icon-no.gif?raw=true)]]
The "no" icon is incorrect;
[[Image(https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/admin/static/admin/img
/icon-no.gif?raw=true)]] means "no entry", not "no".
This leads to some confusing interface cases: a boolean field called
"locked" or "restricted" for example, will show a no entry sign when an
item is **not** locked or restricted - the sign itself denotes restricted
access to something.
While the "yes" tick is commonly-recognised, there is no good symbol for
"no" - most negative symbols denote prohibition, and I can't think of any
that imply simple negation.
Even a red cross in a box [x] isn't adequate, because crosses are also
used to check boxes in many interfaces, and some people are red-green
colourblind.
My suggestion is to change both symbols, so that "yes" is a green tick in
a green box, and and "no" is an unticked red box.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/24491>
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