Joshua A. Andler wrote:
The new calligraphy icon is a step backwards to me.
Is this because it is not familiar or because it doesn't portray the idea of "calligraphy"? I think a quill is quite suitable for calligraphy.
magnifying icons, not only are they not consistent (imho), Those small icons were pulled from http://gnomelook.org/content/show.php/Tangofied+inkscape+icons+set?content=4.... That set does not contains many icons that have been adopted by the Tango project. There is no reason why we could not create new versions of these.
- lack coordination with our mouse cursors: in our current set, node
tool uses this thin triangular black pointer depicted on its icon, and paintbucket cursor is also similar to the icon - this is not the case with proposed icons
This can, of course, be easily remedied, can't it?
Easy remedy provided someone wants to spend the time doing it... and maintaining things too. People tend to want to make changes and not maintain them, which then means the other devs get pulled away from more important issues.
I expected the remedy would be to simply change the image. I wouldn't know, but I didn't think this would involve programming new features.
If the tools are "kinda" the same between apps (as in the same in
principle, NOT usability), but represented by the same icon as it would be in a suite, is this not more confusing to the end user?
I think users will create a link between the tools despite not sharing identical icons so useability issues are unavoidable. Unless of course you use completely different symbols and name them differently - then we'll have some really good useability problems :)