[openbeos] Re: Icon Artwork

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





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