Ohhh boy, third post in a row, should be in spammer blacklist soon... :) Anyway, I found exact argument Mark made about removal of icons: "We decided not to put icons into the menu for each of the different statuses. Our design ethic is to aim for cleaner, less cluttered layouts with fewer icons and better choice of text. A couple of people have said that the menu looks “sparse” or “bare” but I think it sets the right direction and we’ll be continuing with this approach as we touch other parts of the system."
I think there is a problem. Yes, such attitude is favorable and welcome in a places where important decisions are done and clean, understandable text is much more important than icons. However, people restart/hibernate/logout/shutdown their computers much more frequently and it is very common action (and let's not talk about laptop/netbook ballpark here). In result, it is very welcome to *have* visual guidelines. It helps for small screens, it helps when you are in hurry, etc. As far as I understood, code wise it is very easy to return icons. So maybe some of Canonical guys can land here and discuss whole thing. Cheers, Peter. 2009/3/6 Peteris Krisjanis <pec...@gmail.com>: > By the way, there is Mark's blog entry about this as reference on why > such decision was made: > http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/233 > > Cheers, > Peter. > > 2009/3/6 Peteris Krisjanis <pec...@gmail.com>: >> There are two bug reports for this: >> 1) For removing icons in Intrepid beta cycle >> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fast-user-switch-applet/+bug/301309 >> 2) For overal usability of FUSA in Jaunty >> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fast-user-switch-applet/+bug/291846 >> >> I suggest to use second bug report, as it has more futher aims. >> >> Cheers, >> Peter. >> >> 2009/3/6 Nicolò Chieffo <nicolo.chie...@gmail.com>: >>> No the icons were removed. Initially there were icons, but mark (or >>> someone else) decided to remove them >>> >> > -- mortigi tempo Pēteris Krišjānis -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
