[Usability]Re: Articles on icon design

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 18 Dec 2002, Calum Benson wrote:

> 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 :)

Its sort of a neat idea anyway. You could define some amount of space that 
is considered "a lot" and measure trash contents based on that.

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