Re: Back to basics

Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.events
Message-ID <5298660.plAPfI4bvY__38752.0678727471$1345221510$gmane$org@xps>
El Divendres, 17 d'agost de 2012, a les 14:34:44, Marco Martin va escriure:
> On Friday 17 August 2012, Nuno Pinheiro wrote:
> > as I said you probably dont want to open that can of worms, like many
> > things in oss it will take its time to get it fixed as it requires people
> > to start thinking difrently.. on a side note you should notice that
> > virtualy all desktops (including mobile and tablet)  have the systry icons
> > monochrome
> 
> that is a part of removing visual noise, not having too many colors in the
> panel, an area always seen is important.
> 
> the concept of the systray is that it should contain no more than 3-4 items
> with instantly recognizable shape that tell things that really needs to be
> always known and under the eyes, or becomes quite useless immediately
> (little game, name each one of
> http://steveconroy.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/ss-crowded.jpg?w=455&h=113)
> 
> so, going monochrome reduces noise, 

And makes the sound and wifi icons so alike that half of the times i'm 
wheeling over the wifi icon to try to change the volume :-/

Cheers,
  Albert

> leaving only what's is actually
> important reduces noise.
> something that may be worth trying is to put by default icons of
> "application" category in the hidden area (can still be explicitly shown by
> the user) this can already be done reliably now

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