[ubuntu-art] Notification Area Icons

[Günther Beyer]

Good point. 

The toolbaricons are more like little hints, you want to know from time
to time. But they should not fight for attention. Maybe it would be
enough, to make them smaller and give some more whitespace...


Am Donnerstag, den 29.11.2007, 23:24 +0100 schrieb 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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