Wine in Tango

[Henri Verbeet]

2009/9/19 Joel Holdsworth <joel at airwebreathe.org.uk>:
> On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 21:43 +0200, Henri Verbeet wrote:
>> 2009/9/19 Vitaliy Margolen <wine-devel at kievinfo.com>:
>> > - The European stop sign is not known/used in US. It has no meaning to most
>> > people.
>> Actually, assuming you mean
>> http://www.airwebreathe.org.uk/wine-icon/oic_hand-48.png, that's not a
>> stop sign in Europe either. It generally means "no entry", and I was
>> under the impression it's used in that way in the US as well. Not that
>> that makes it any more appropriate as an "error" sign. (Doesn't gnome
>> use that one as well though? I guess that would at least make it
>> recognizable to some people.)
>
> It's the dialog error icon from the Tango base set. Does that carry any
> weight? maybe... maybe not. It seemed clear enough to me though.
>
Possibly, consistency is generally a good thing. I can't say I pay a
whole lot of attention to the icons in messageboxes, but I could see
how this one wouldn't be entirely clear on its own to a new user. The
color red probably does more to convey the message "error" than the
sign.