On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 16:20, Andrew Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 09:35, Mark Finlay wrote: > > As well as that I have a strong interest in the desktop and nautilus > > so my list is: > > 1. Home icon that isn't a picture of a house > > What kind of icon do you think we should have then? In general the house > icon I would think is preferable because it is understood what it refers > to. Offhand I cannot think of anything else which would be easily seen > and understood as "home", excepting other buildings/tents etc, which > look essentially the same anyway. Sun's usability study of Gnome 1.2 (see developer.gnome.org) showed that users, when asked to find file X, did not thing to click on the little icon of a house. Something like the attached (by Luca) would solve this. The icon both shows a house so people will know that it is "home", but it also has a folder to the user knows that it's a folder. There is also a really nice one in Industrial, and Jimmac has offered to do something similar for gnome-icon-theme based on the new folder icons... -- Mark Finlay <sisob eircom net>
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