On 10/30/07, Joel Holdsworth <joel@...1709...> wrote:
- I think they look slicker - more highly designed.
- The colours look more vibrant - I can't stand the "pastel shades" of the
present set, they look washed out and anemic to me.
Well... let me just say I disagree :)
- The Tango Icons look a lot better for Windows users, and I'd argue better
as well for Ubuntu-default-install users, because the icons look very much more in keeping with the parent desktop.
More in keeping with Windows? In what way? Windows users are very much used to non-unified interfaces. Take Winamp - it breaks each and every rule of windows UI and yet is very popular. Take Photoshop/AI - they have their own widgets, and their icons are very much NOT in keeping with anything if only because they are pure grayscale. I'd even venture to say that on Windows, an application that uses too many system-provided icons tends to look amateurish and hastily done. The big names have their own unique sets.
I agree of course that we should use platform-specific Save and Open. That just makes sense. But now we're discussing the main toolbar. AFAIK there's no Windows-wide standard for the Pen tool icon. Why should Pen strive to be similar to Save? They are absolutely different things, they will never be on the same toolbar even.
- For me attention to detail REALLY matters. I believe it's worth spending
time to get the little things right. But also, these icons are not such a tiny detail, because for many users they are thing that carry the feel of the app to a first time user. Even for long time users, a good working environment can make the user feel subtly happier about their work as they do it.
I agree, and this is exactly why our current set is better :) A lot of work went into small meaningful details of the current icons. The proposed tango set looks very hastily compiled by comparison - which it is, because instead of carefully designing icons for specific tools you just compiled some existing ones that are "generally similar".