[ubuntu-art] Notification Area Icons

[Álvaro Medina Ballester]

I'm completely agree with you Mikkel.


El 29/11/2007, a las 23:20, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen escribió:

> On 29/11/2007, Matthew Nicholson <sjoeboo at sjoeboo.com> wrote:
> While most of the icons show in this thread are indeed nice icons, I
> think having some separate package/effort of the notification area  
> icons
> is very counter to the "normal" Gnome behavior. Normally, the icons in
> the notification area are changed by a). the icons theme currently
> applied (nm-applet) or b). the application itself (pidgin). Having  
> some
> separate icon set would break this. What about applications we don't
> plan for? The icons would look out of place. What if the icon theme is
> changed? Would the notification area icons remain the same, or would
> they use the new theme?
>
> We can't just give up because we cannot control all 3rd party apps.  
> No matter how hard we try they can always hard code icons and  
> theming and break visual consistency.
>
> I think it is feasible to create enough icons to make the experience  
> smooth for the majority of the users.
>
> People who stray from the path and install 3rd party apps are also  
> likely to value those apps more than the stock ones. After all they  
> took the effort of installing it. That means that more visible  
> (coloured) icons might not be that bad after all.
>
> The primary goal for having monochrome icons is to reduce overall  
> visual clutter. Even though we have one or two 3rd party apps  
> breaking the monochromeness we still have reduced the overall visual  
> clutter compared to the current color-orgy.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Mikkel
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