Re: Usability - SIG, Spin, Echo icons [was Re: Icon theme for ubuntu]

2007-11-27 Thread Máirín Duffy
Martin Sourada wrote: On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 23:40 +0100, David Nielsen wrote: [1] http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/ Thanks for the link, to have some material to talk about, I've taken some of the newer Echo icons (all the 'category' icons [1] are done that way, and more or less finished) and

Re: Usability - SIG, Spin, Echo icons [was Re: Icon theme for ubuntu]

2007-11-22 Thread David Nielsen
tor, 22 11 2007 kl. 11:09 -0800, skrev Luya Tshimbalanga: > It would be nice if you brought your contribution by listing the icons > subject to the issue. Say you have Bluecurve icon on the desktop, are > your sight affectedby the shape? Perhaps making the outline sighltly > ticker might help. Th

Re: Usability - SIG, Spin, Echo icons [was Re: Icon theme for ubuntu]

2007-11-22 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
It would be nice if you brought your contribution by listing the icons subject to the issue. Say you have Bluecurve icon on the desktop, are your sight affectedby the shape? Perhaps making the outline sighltly ticker might help. Luya ___ Fedora-art-list

Re: Usability - SIG, Spin, Echo icons [was Re: Icon theme for ubuntu]

2007-11-22 Thread David Nielsen
tor, 22 11 2007 kl. 13:15 +0100, skrev Martin Sourada: > On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 11:17 +0100, David Nielsen wrote: > > I just walked away from the screen to see which icons would work at that > > distance - I would disagree that you have well defined shapes to begin > > with. I also remind you that

Re: Usability - SIG, Spin, Echo icons [was Re: Icon theme for ubuntu]

2007-11-22 Thread Martin Sourada
On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 11:17 +0100, David Nielsen wrote: > I just walked away from the screen to see which icons would work at that > distance - I would disagree that you have well defined shapes to begin > with. I also remind you that having a strong black outline helps the > brain define the shap

Re: Usability - SIG, Spin, Echo icons [was Re: Icon theme for ubuntu]

2007-11-22 Thread David Nielsen
tor, 22 11 2007 kl. 09:36 +0100, skrev Martin Sourada: > Well, they does not only look smaller, but they also are smaller - you > have a wider view when looking at iso perspective than when you reduce > to plain 2D head on perspective. When creating new icons we are trying > to simplify the 22x22

Re: Usability - SIG, Spin, Echo icons [was Re: Icon theme for ubuntu]

2007-11-22 Thread Luya Tshimbalanga
Assuming it is this link http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MartinSourada/EchoIconThemeGuidelinesDRAFT -- Luya Tshimbalanga Fedora Project contributor http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/LuyaTshimbalanga ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redha

Re: Usability - SIG, Spin, Echo icons [was Re: Icon theme for ubuntu]

2007-11-22 Thread Martin Sourada
On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 01:42 +0100, David Nielsen wrote: > Generally, iso prespective make the icons look smaller, please remember > that at this size both detail level and shape affects how easily you can > utilize the brains wonderful pattern recognition abilities. I would > strip the detail level

Re: Usability - SIG, Spin, Echo icons [was Re: Icon theme for ubuntu]

2007-11-21 Thread David Nielsen
tor, 22 11 2007 kl. 00:37 +0100, skrev Martin Sourada: > On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 23:40 +0100, David Nielsen wrote: > > [1] http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/ > > Thanks for the link, > > to have some material to talk about, I've taken some of the newer Echo > icons (all the 'category' icons [1] ar

Re: Usability - SIG, Spin, Echo icons [was Re: Icon theme for ubuntu]

2007-11-21 Thread David Nielsen
ons, 21 11 2007 kl. 22:31 +0100, skrev Martin Sourada: > I think, David, if you know about issues with Echo usability why not > point them out? I think we should take a look at it too a reach some > consensus between our desires and usability, it is completely useless to > make a icon theme which

Usability - SIG, Spin, Echo icons [was Re: Icon theme for ubuntu]

2007-11-21 Thread Martin Sourada
On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 21:54 +0100, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > David Nielsen wrote: > > > Shall I start filing bugs on all the components in Fedora that currently > > does not accept an easy theme change such as rhgb, gdm, anaconda and so > > on (preferredly something like replacing the fedora-artwork