New icons for gnome-logout dialog

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On 3/22/06, Manu Cornet <lmanul at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Hi !
>
> > On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 08:03 +0000, Matthew East wrote:
> > > > I make a "fake" screenshot with the new icons.
> > > > http://developer.berlios.de/dbimage.php?id=2680
> > > >
> > > > I would like to hear your opinions.
>
> I like the colors, and the right amount of gloss (not too much, not too
> little). Apart from this, here are the issues I see with these icons :
>
> * They all have the same shape. Color is a very nice way to distinguish
> icons (it was actually the way I made it the first time), but it's
> usually not enough (especially for color blind people): color + shape
> allow people to distinguish icons much faster. The icons do look nice,
> but are really less explicit I think.
>
> * Log out has a red color, which implies (with most people's
> understanding of colors in symbols) that it has a "strong" effect on the
> system, like shut down. (I would suggest, for example, green for logout,
> brown for switch, grey or dark blue for lock ?). I think shut down
> really should be the only fully red icon in here.
>
> * Log out has a "power button" icon, which is really misleading I
> believe (logging out doesn't affect the power state of the computer).
> The usual door icon represents this action better in my eyes.

I agree with almost all of what Manu said, but the fact that Logout
looks like a power button is the most disturbing! Logour should be
more like an arrow leaving a door!