Re: [Usability] Re: New "Add to panel" dialog

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Estradin Solaris <estradin gmail com> wrote:

> > One thing OS X does that helps it to look slightly
> > less cluttered is that the icons are fairly plain
> and
> > only in black.
> > It makes it look less busy to the eye.
> 
> Actually that's up to the developer. Adobe Version
> Cue is green and
> red. Thankfully, most developers respect Apple's
> HIG, at least in that
> aspect. Maybe a guideline could restrict the amount
> of colors and
> complexity of the applet icons in Gnome?

I wonder whether we could do something cool with SVG
icons, so there's a monochrome effect but in the
user's currently chosen theme colours?
Eg, on Ubuntu's default Human theme, you'd get icons
in brown and yellow hues.
That would be cleaner AND cool. Always a good
combination :)

> Actually applets need quite a lot of work, HIG-wise,
> because they
> behaviour is terribly inconsistent. All of them
> should behave like a
> drop-down menu, with no right click or with a
> consistent right click
> behaviour. Certainly that's a quite urgent problem
> to be addressed.
> Maybe we should file a bug in the guidelines?

It seems something is in the works:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2005-October/msg00151.html




		
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