Re: Back to basics

A Sexta, 17 de Agosto de 2012 10:03:57 Anne Wilson escreveu:
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> On 16/08/12 22:59, Nuno Pinheiro wrote:
> > To be honest to me all are desktops, but here I'm talking about the
> > 
> >  mouse/keybord driven one, ym sure every one will get it...
> > 
> > atention we rea not discarding all our eforts in all all of our
> > other "desktops" applications, frameworks etc, but for the upcoming
> > 4.10 we give a extra bit of "love" into the basics.... again by
> > basics I meen the stuf most people use, aka windows taskbars,
> > themes integration, etc.
> 
> Yes, developer and user perceptions are not always in sync.  For
> instance, I understand the idea that system tool icons are a
> monochrome set, and that distinguishes them from application icons,
> but users don't understand that, and many complain that it makes the
> panel look untidy.  I do wonder whether, if we want to keep the
> principle, we should simply have the same simply icons but in a single
> colour instead of white.  Of course there may be problems with this,
> but if it works, something that annoys many users would simply
> disappear.  Actually, I find the fact that they are smaller than
> application icons much more annoying.  I assume that is because they
> have to fit into a tray that itself fits into the panel.

You realy dont want to open that can of worms :) 
If it was up to me we would ahve removed the systemtray from the main panel a 
long time ago... a system try is not a task manager, as the name implies a 
system tray is  for system wide thingies...

aplications ended up abusing the system try for their hown thing and in may 
way it works a minimised taskbar, confusing the users.

the monochome icons..... well it was my try to make aplication developers do 
the right thing, I would not do any monochome icon for them unless they would 
find a way to share the systry among their selfs and use it for its intent, 
example insted of a kopete try icon we would have a IM icon shared by all your 
IM like apps, intead of a a marock icon we would have a media playing icon 
shared by all media playing apps, etc etc

That didnt worked out...

about users complaining, im sure if we put the try icons in colors again, we 
will have twice as many users complaining...every time we chage anything 
people complain, its a fact of life.  I bet there are stil tons of people 
complaining about the new folder icons 
  


> 
> I have a feeling that a brainstorming session or a browse through the
> forum would unmask a number of things that are almost irrelevant to
> developers, but an annoyance to users.  Fixing those would give a big
> boost to user perceptions.
> 
> Anne
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