Re: [Unity-design] Proposal: An alternate icon scheme for the Messaging Menu

On 26/09/12 01:53, Sam Hewitt wrote: > In addition to changing the "status spheres" (as I've dubbed them) > I've changed the envelope icons as well. > > The following link is an archive to all the icons in attached picture > at 16, 22 & 24 pixels. > > https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7027392/alternate-mess

Re: [Unity-design] Proposal: An alternate icon scheme for the Messaging Menu

On 25/09/12 22:01, Sam Hewitt wrote: > I'm sort of redacting some things: accounting for folks with > colour-vision deficiencies the circles aren't the best scheme. The actual status should be clearly available to anyone opening the menu, the colour is a nice-to-have, not an essential element. Ma

Re: [Unity-design] Proposal: An alternate icon scheme for the Messaging Menu

I haven't noticed any reason why the menu cannot have two symbols, side-by-side: ☏ ✉. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Unity-design] Proposal: An alternate icon scheme for the Messaging Menu

Wow, like it a lot. Now is the question if something similare can be done for the envelope. On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Sam Hewitt wrote: > I made some slight modifications to the circles (added some symbols): > https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7027392/status-spheres-screenshot2.png > -- Mailing l

Re: [Unity-design] Proposal: An alternate icon scheme for the Messaging Menu

I made some slight modifications to the circles (added some symbols): https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7027392/status-spheres-screenshot2.png On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Thibaut Brandscheid wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Sam Hewitt wrote: > >> I'm sort of redacting some things: accountin

Re: [Unity-design] Proposal: An alternate icon scheme for the Messaging Menu

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Sam Hewitt wrote: > I'm sort of redacting some things: accounting for folks with colour-vision > deficiencies the circles aren't the best scheme. > Wikipedia : *Color blindness *(red-green)* affects a significant pe

Re: [Unity-design] Proposal: An alternate icon scheme for the Messaging Menu

I'm sort of redacting some things: accounting for folks with colour-vision deficiencies the circles aren't the best scheme. On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Thibaut Brandscheid wrote: > Here they are. > > I like Sam's idea of having big dots as menu entries, they look much > cleaner and better th

Re: [Unity-design] Proposal: An alternate icon scheme for the Messaging Menu

This is pretty good! I wonder if we couldn't colour the sides rather than the top? On 25/09/12 19:51, Thibaut Brandscheid wrote: > Some thoughts: > > * I would love to see only a part of the messaging menu icon to be > colored. > * keep the _same shape_ to denote the status → is more ca

Re: [Unity-design] Proposal: An alternate icon scheme for the Messaging Menu

This looks much better to me. Though what would be really cool is to have the plain sealed envelope when nothing is happening and maybe make it look like a letter coming out of it for the different statuses, with the colours shown above :) On 25 September 2012 19:51, Thibaut Brandscheid wrote: >

Re: [Unity-design] Proposal: An alternate icon scheme for the Messaging Menu

On 25/09/12 14:18, David Callé wrote: > IIRC, shadows have been here since the first mono icons in the panel > (Karmic?). Resizing the canvas to 22x22 (it is 24x26) and recentering > the icon make it less blurry and almost similar to the previous > messaging icon. > (see screenshot) That's much be

Re: [Unity-design] Proposal: An alternate icon scheme for the Messaging Menu

On 23 September 2012 13:52, Nekhelesh Ramananthan wrote: > What if there was a new message and I am currently online? The screenshot > proposed only depict one status at a time which are chat status or email > status. To be honest, the icons currently now seem fine. I am not sure why > the communi

Re: [Unity-design] Proposal: An alternate icon scheme for the Messaging Menu

What if there was a new message and I am currently online? The screenshot proposed only depict one status at a time which are chat status or email status. To be honest, the icons currently now seem fine. I am not sure why the community hates them so much. On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Georgi Ka

Re: [Unity-design] Proposal: An alternate icon scheme for the Messaging Menu

And here is the OMG! Ubuntu! article about this :) http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/how-to-use-different-messaging-menu-icons-in-ubuntu-12-10 Lets see how people will react to it :P -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe :