[geeklog-devel] More appropriate (and inclusive!) icon for'Professional' icon theme :)

[Blank, Jessica]

Hmmm. It is crowded, though I contend that it does convey the 'Groups' idea really well. Three ideas:

1) On many OSes, 'Users and Groups' are condensed together into ONE menu item. Perhaps that should be done here, and both icons replaced with the present 'Groups' icon ('two silhouettes'), a la Mac OS X and Windows?

2) An alternative 'Groups' icon idea: The icon (48x48) is divided into four different coloured squares (24x24)-- say, red, green, yellow and blue, each with a very simple silhouette in it.

3) Another alternative 'Groups' icon idea: Something more akin to my suggested icon, only with only three silhouettes instead of six?

--Jessica, playing UI geek

-----Original Message-----
From: geeklog-devel-bounces at lists.geeklog.net on behalf of Dirk Haun
Sent: Sat 3/8/2008 4:04 AM
To: geeklog-devel
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] More appropriate (and inclusive!) icon for'Professional' icon theme :)
 
Blank, Jessica wrote:

>However, I still think that two silhouettes is more the norm to
>represent 'Users' (not 'Groups');

Well, I'm not an artist, so I have to work with what's available. The
current  icons are taken from the Gnome project and the works of Jakub
Steiner[1].

My line of thinking for the Users and Groups icons was something like
this: Even though it says "Users", you're only really editing one user
at a time. Whereas "Groups" applies to more than one user. And so I
found these two icons, representing, in my view, "one user" and "more
than one user" and went with it.


>http://twu.net/~j/groups-edit2.png

While I agree that it better represents the "groups" idea, I think it's
a little too crowded to fit in well with the other icons. IMHO as a non-
artist only, of course. I'd box to the majority, though.

bye, Dirk

[1] <http://jimmac.musichall.cz/icons.php>


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