Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Yann Lossouarn
What is the intent ? Having a permanent icon with two states (no new mail / there's new mail) or having no icon when there's no new mail and the icon you sent when there's new mail ? dani planas armangue a écrit : > i made a message-new icon in blue. the atachment shows that i'm inspired > by inf

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Yann Lossouarn
I support that... BTW, the colour code used in aeronautics (at least at Airbus) is the same : red = warning (semantic : be very careful, important problem, risk of injury/death) ; orange = caution (semantic : be careful, problem, risk of hardware damage or operational). green = ok (eventhough , a

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread dani planas armangue
i made a message-new icon in blue. the atachment shows that i'm inspired by information blue. hope you like -- <> icon.tar.gz Description: application/compressed-tar ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 01/04/10 14:23, Jim Rorie wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 13:38 +0100, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote: > > >> >> Blue = Information (e.g new mail) >> > +1 > Blue is used for informational road signs in the US as well. I agree > with trying to map these colors to existing

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Jan-Christoph Borchardt
Though I support it; this point was originally made by Luke Benstead, not by me. :) On 1 April 2010 14:23, Jim Rorie wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 13:38 +0100, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote: > > > > > Blue = Information (e.g new mail) > > +1 > Blue is used for informational road signs i

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Jim Rorie
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 13:38 +0100, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote: > > Blue = Information (e.g new mail) +1 Blue is used for informational road signs in the US as well. I agree with trying to map these colors to existing traffic paradigms. It's gives a solid point of reference.

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Jan-Christoph Borchardt
On 1 April 2010 11:06, Luke Benstead wrote: > On 1 April 2010 10:52, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 10:02 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > > >> There should be a rationale and guidance for the use of the various > >> colours. For example, red is clearly an alert colour, as is

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 01/04/10 10:11, Conscious User wrote: > >> There should be a rationale and guidance for the use of the various >> colours. For example, red is clearly an alert colour, as is orange. When >> would one use red and when orange? Both indicate a caution or warning. >> Green indicates something tha

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Luke Benstead
On 1 April 2010 10:52, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 10:02 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > >> There should be a rationale and guidance for the use of the various >> colours. For example, red is clearly an alert colour, as is orange. When >> would one use red and when orange? Both

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 10:02 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > There should be a rationale and guidance for the use of the various > colours. For example, red is clearly an alert colour, as is orange. When > would one use red and when orange? Both indicate a caution or warning. > Green indicates so

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Yann Lossouarn
Hello, There are different sorts (6, if my brain does not fail) of "daltonism", that more affects men than women. ~8% of men have some sort of color perception deficiency, mostly affecting the perception of green, but red and blue are also affected for some people. Before my current IT profess

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Conscious User
> There should be a rationale and guidance for the use of the various > colours. For example, red is clearly an alert colour, as is orange. When > would one use red and when orange? Both indicate a caution or warning. > Green indicates something that one should be aware of that is NOT a > warning

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 01/04/10 09:51, dani planas armangue wrote: > El jue, 01-04-2010 a las 08:13 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth escribió: > >> On 01/04/10 00:52, dani planas armangue wrote: >> >>> I have noticed that the icons are nice and simple monochrome, but adding >>> the color, designers do not take into ac

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Conscious User
> > I have noticed that the icons are nice and simple monochrome, but adding > > the color, designers do not take into account the color palette. > > We certianly do want consistency. But which palette are you using for > this change? I was wondering this myself. Perhaps dani simply reduced the

Re: [Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-04-01 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
On 01/04/10 00:52, dani planas armangue wrote: > I have noticed that the icons are nice and simple monochrome, but adding > the color, designers do not take into account the color palette. > We certianly do want consistency. But which palette are you using for this change? signature.asc Desc

[Ayatana] message indicator.(colour palette)

2010-03-31 Thread dani planas armangue
I have noticed that the icons are nice and simple monochrome, but adding the color, designers do not take into account the color palette. Tango team, (which have been derived, elementary and Humanity) is a team that has spent many years designing icons for the gnome usability. and they know very w