RE: User interface suggestions

[David Grega <webmaster overtech zzn com>]

I still don't like this business of gray-scaling and un-coloring.  Aren't 
we supposed to be making Gnome more novice-friendly?  I'm sure one or two 
people may actually use this feature but this feature has overall been 
geared towards the novices - which I feel would be totally confused by this 
feature.  Besides, if programmers don't support this, it'll never get 
anywhere and we'll be back at square one.

- Dave

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From:  Adrian
Sent:  Sunday, December 03, 2000 6:05 AM
To:  Gguilist
Cc:  Jorg Rathlev
Subject:  RE: User interface suggestions


On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Jorg Rathlev wrote:

> No matter what it is called, IMHO it doesn't make sense.
>

:)

> If less used icons get greyscaled, developers won't want to choose
> black&white styled icons for their apps any longer because it will never
> receive the honor of being shown in color. The same applies to icons with
> only little color (where it would be hard to distinguish between colored
> state and greyscaled state).
>

Humm... yes but, as we commented in previous messages, we're talking about
future, not about present. Icons will have to adapt to the interface
improvements...

> This will lead to is lots of very bright, colorful icons that distract 
users
> from their actual work (take a look at KDE's icons).
>
> BTW, this might also be the reason why Microsoft uses greyscaled buttons 
in
> Internet Explorer: they avoid distracting users from the actual website.
>

Congratulations!, you've discovered one of the implicit suggestions of the
pics I sent! :). If you take a look at them again, you'll see that an
implication of the most used technology v2 :) is that most of the icons
will have converted into black&white (=uncolored=greyscaled) ones, getting
a more clear interface and decreasing the distraction on the user.

> I think both KDE and GNOME are already using icons way too much, and 
often
> the icons are hard to distinguish (and don't improve usability at all)
> because the focus was put on making them look like photos (i.e. lots of
> color, faded colors etc.) instead of giving them a clear, unique outline.
>

Good point. I agree it's needed a general review of the available icons in
gnome, their style, consistence, ...

> Just take a look at the screenshot (see link below) and compare the icons 
in
> the start menu with those of GIMP. Which are easier to recognize, easier 
to
> distinguish and (probably) easier to memorize? Or compare the outlines of
> the copy and the paste icon. No difference, if it didn't have the little
> arrows.
>
> http://www.gnome.org/images/screenshots/19991208-jrb-big
>
>
> Jorg
>

Tnx


								Adrian


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