[Bug 28798] new logout dialog interface issues

Sean Middleditch elanthis at awesomeplay.com
Tue Jan 17 23:26:21 UTC 2006


Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/28798

Comment:
One more minor issue I forgot to mention: the sleep and hibernate icons
are the exact same thing with different colors.  There are many types of
color blindness, and I'm not sure if any of them would come into effect
with this dialog, but I suspect it's likely.  Furthermore, the human
mind is more efficient at recognizing shapes than colors, so it would be
more useful to have two icons with different shapes but the same colors
rather than same colors and different shapes.  (Being both different
shapes and color is best, of course.)

The power off icon is also a little too similar, in my opinion.  The
icons also rather don't make sense.  Power off isn't using the
international sign for power, but sleep is?  The reboot icon also looks
like the refresh icon in a browser.  I don't know if that's intentional
or not (I can see the analogy), but it may not be the best icon to use
given the differences between refreshing a single web page and rebooting
the entire machine.




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