Re: [Usability]eye friendlyness :-)

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 01:28:28AM +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> sön 2002-08-04 klockan 15.15 skrev Ali Akcaagac:
> > hi, i don't exactly know where to put this there are no exact defined
> > bugzilla entries for this kind of stuff. i doubt that programmers
> > generally care what kind of icons their applications show but it would
> > be cool to get some special 'art' mailinglist or 'art' bugzilla entry,
> > so long i would be happy to see the "system tools" menu entry slighly
> > cleaned up with better icons. as it looks now <attachment> it doesn't
> > really look attractive. hope no one kills me for the 16kb attachment.
> 
> Haha, OT, does System Log has the crappiest icon or what? Hadn't seen
> this before. Though perhaps someone thinks it's pretty clever in English
> but it means _nothing_ in other languages.

It's also used as an example of what not to do in the HIG:

  http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig/icons.html


Cheers,
Greg Merchan