Re: [REPLACE] gnome-panel icon

[Francis Whittle <fudje phreaker net>]

On 2003.06.24 17:42, Francis Whittle wrote:
> On 2003.06.23 19:46, Lapo Calamandrei wrote:
> > Sorry, I don't like this one very much, for the following reasons
>
> > 	+ we are not going to have the "foot menu" in default
> > 	configuration (isn't it?), so perhaps we should avoid it in 
> > the		     	 icon
>
> The GNOME foot however, is not just that menu.  And, let's face it, 
> the panel has been what people (user-type people, anyway) recognise 
> as GNOME for a long time.  OK, so that's mixing the same part of 
> different pardigms from various viewpoints (the same people have 
> recognised the foot menu too, I mean) - but I think tradition has its 
> foot in there (pun intended).
>
> > 	+ the cut on the right is too "hard", it should fade or be
> > 	somewhat rounded
>
> I always liked the wavy cutoffs you get in graphs that means "there's 
> a lot more continuous data here that would take up 4 million pages so 
> we're not including it because it's irrelevant anyway".  Maybe an 
> alpha-blended one of them?
> 			 
> > 	+ is the arrow different? (we don't have arrows in the default 
> > config too, but a grey rectangle, doesn't seems a panel :-))
>
> The arrow is different but that one's cooler.  I know that goes 
> against everything that standardisation and interface-solidarity is 
> about, but I mean seriously, that circle with the 1850's style white 
> arrow in it is about as visually attractive as the folder icons in 
> the 1995 edition of the operating system that shall remain unnamed.
>
> Out of interest, does anyone else think that arrow should be 
> themeable? (My personal opinion is that it should share the same 
> arrow as the scrollbar buttons)

OK evidently that's happening already.  I should start going to the 
effort of using 2.3

> > Ciao
> > Lapo
> >
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