Fwd: Wine in Tango

[Reece Dunn]

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From: Reece Dunn <msclrhd at googlemail.com>
Date: 2009/9/19
Subject: Re: Wine in Tango
To: Henri Verbeet <hverbeet at gmail.com>


2009/9/19 Henri Verbeet <hverbeet at gmail.com>:
> 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.

The error icon needs to be recognisable as well (aside from colour)
for people with red-green colour blindness.

A no entry sign doesn't really make sense here (although, it is the
correct image from a tango perspective). Tango does have an unofficial
(X) 'traditional' version (ref:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tango_icons), so it would probably
be better to use that instead.

Not sure what the Oxygen icon looks like.

====

On the whole, these icons are a major improvement. Well done.

Q: For the small 16x16 icons, why do some have the wine glass and some
don't (for the ones that have a wine glass on the larger versions)?

- Reece