[Ayatana] Software center icon needs designers minds, and new humanity desktop methafor.

2011-09-03 Thread dani
take a look at these bugs and think about it. Among ubuntu will polish 11.10. https://bugs.launchpad.net/humanity/+bug/840477 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/834204 Daniel Planas.a lightgraphite.com ___ Mailing list:

Re: [Ayatana] Software center icon needs designers minds, and new humanity desktop methafor.

2011-09-03 Thread gespert...@gmail.com
A quick and easy idea. Using the same concept used in U1 brand for the USC. http://ubuntuone.com/30SgZIkoCLbxKWGhS2CUpY The similarity with the U1 icon gives it coherence (as a Canonical service) and the color change makes it different enough to avoid confusion. The arrow pointing downwards is a ve

Re: [Ayatana] Software center icon needs designers minds, and new humanity desktop methafor.

2011-09-03 Thread gespert...@gmail.com
2011/9/3 dani : > It's so beautiful and clever, too clever ( for sombody) the usability > testing revealed that people need to have things very easy, try to imagine > that your grandmother would have to guess that the icon represents?This is, > in my opinion what the design team try to do, ubutnu f

Re: [Ayatana] Software center icon needs designers minds, and new humanity desktop methafor.

2011-09-03 Thread Carl Ansell
I like the mockup icon, but not for USC. I think icons like that (but a different colour) would be good for synaptic and update manager. 2011/9/3 dani: It's so beautiful and clever, too clever ( for sombody) the usability testing revealed that people need to have things very easy, try to imagine

[Ayatana] Thunderbird needs tighter panel integration

2011-09-03 Thread Carl Ansell
At present, the only use for the mail icon in the panel is to set up thunderbird (for email anyway). Once an account has been set up, it would be useful for thunderbird to check emails in the background, and turn blue when new emails are available. This would mean the user does not need to keep