On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 19:16 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 09:59 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > In Yelp 3, we have the location entry which displays an icon > > alongside the title of the page you're viewing. Icons are > > also shown in the history dropdown. And as of this week, > > I have them in an auto-complete dropdown when you type into > > the search field. > > > > See my blog post for an idea of how the icons look: > > > > http://blogs.gnome.org/shaunm/2010/03/11/more-yelp-3-0-location-entry/ > > > > I've been thinking about how best to use the icons. Users > > will generally be looking at an individual help file in a > > single window. It's not really useful to show the Empathy > > icon over and over again for every page in the Empathy help. > > > > What I'm considering is having icons for certain common page > > types. So we'd have an icon for tasks, overviews, problems, > > guides, etc. I think this would be particularly helpful in > > the auto-complete dropdown. > > I'm attaching three rough ideas for page type icons. > Please excuse my poor artistic skills. Obviously we'd > want a real artist to do final versions. > > These aren't named in any way that indicates what they > are. I'd like people to guess, to see if the metaphors > convey anything useful. And I'd love it if people could > get non-documentation friends and family to guess too. > People on this list are probably primed to give biased > answers. And a fourth. Sorry for the noise. -- Shaun McCance http://syllogist.net/
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