[Usability]Re: Articles on icon design

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 19:50, Luca Ferretti wrote:

> something like
> 
> case ( KB/file rate )
> {
> = 0              -> empty_icon;
> 0 < and <= 25%   -> few_icon;
> 25% < and <= 50% -> half_icon;
> 50% < and <= 75% -> big_icon;
> > 75%            -> full_icon;
> }

The question would be what does "full" mean... the trashcan can
theoretically hold several gigabytes worth of data, so in normal use (a
few files at a time) the icon would never even show "half full".  Or if
you fill up your disk with other stuff, the icon could change without
you even putting any more trash in it because the trashcan itself just
got smaller :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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