[ubuntu-art] Update-notifier icon

[Troy James Sobotka]

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It is of utmost importance to consider who our audience is before we try
to communicate with them.

Who are they?  I can tell you after having used Ubuntu since Warty, that
I still have no clue.


_If_ our audience were Joe and Josephine Average, with exposure to only
the mainstream operating systems, we can probably argue:

 1) 22 pixel icons simply do not suffice on a communication level alone.
 I would be willing to suggest that subject to a focus group, there is
_no_ 22 pixel icon that would precisely and clearly communicate anything
more than 'something to do with a pencil and paper' or like vaguetries.
 2) "Universal" is yet another path of folly.  Urgent is always, once
again, dependent on your audience.  My six year old probably considers a
blinking icon of something that looks like a 'dog' urgent.


To negotiate the current dilemma of our design lacking a decisive target
audience, and in the name of consistency, it is probably worth applying
ourselves within the language Ubuntu already tries to establish.

  * Utilize the iconography present across the various dialog displays.
 After a term of user interaction, the user will have been exposed to
one or more of these (albeit not possibly as consistently as is ideal),
and could possibly make the connection.  These are located in
/usr/share/icons/Human/scalable/status and expand this 'vocabulary' only
where it is absolutely required.

Sincerely,
TJS
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