Beautiful stupidity?

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Vishnoo wrote on 09/03/10 06:04:
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> On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 22:54 +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
>...
>> And then the Human icon theme changes that arrived late in Karmic
>> made things slightly worse again. It was different people doing each
>> of these things.
>
> There is no point in trying to shunt the blame to the icon theme ,
> when the icon changes were infact directed by the design team ;)
> There is also a comment[by design team] on a bug report mentioning the
> new-mail icon is good as-is and it is meant to be un-intrusive .

Where?

> Several icons were changed since the design team wanted minor
> improvements , why wasnt this mentioned?
>...

Because none of us who were involved in the design of the messaging menu
saw it in time. When we did, we said to each other, "what? it's not
supposed to look like that".
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MessagingMenu?action=recall&rev=28&highlight=displayed+as+a+green+dot+in+the+menu+title#API>

Anyhow, five months later this discussion isn't really useful except to
make sure we'll avoid that kind of deterioration in future.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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