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Icons for toolbars and UI elements SHOULD be standardized.

The end user is more important than the whims of a programmer who likely 
knows nothing of Usability.

Users should be able to use any toolbar after learning one.

This is well known by now.  I wonder why we still debate it?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charlie Clark" <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 5:46 PM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: Icon Artwork


> On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:05:35 +0200,  wrote:
>
> > > Having standardized toolbar icons for common functions is an
> > > excellent
> > > idea. The only possible downside is that it would force a particular
> > > look for toolbar buttons -- I don't know if that is a good thing or
> > > not. Thoughts, anyone else?
> > Why should that be a bad thing? I like a consistent look, and I prefer
> > it over any mess out there.
>
> I've recently been reviewing some specialised medical software which lots 
> of home-made icons that are all absolutely dreadful! I'm also reading a 
> book, "An Undividable Glow", which contains a lot of dialect from my home 
> town and, while it's a great book, it reminds me of how important common 
> cultural currency is - if you're not from Manchester you'd be lost in it. 
> I Icons and pictograms have too much semiotic importance to be left just 
> to "mere programmers"! ;-)
>
> Charlie