2010/3/22 Martin Sourada martin.sourada@gmail.com:
It's a departure from my original opinion on this subject, but currently I believe the white echo outline is very suitable for icons like arrows, media icons (play, pause, stop, ...), adds a nice touch to dialog icons, but we should not push it everywhere when we can imagine it. Use, but don't overuse. I don't think that if we use this way we would increase inconsistency. On the contrary I think it would make the white outline less ordinary, something to notice and something to help distinguish actions from applications and something that would add echo perspective more special, personalized echoish feel, while maintaining good compatibility with upstream themes like tango/gnome and oxygen.
The white outline should be something that helps to define the icon -- i.e. should be used when the shape of the icon is main characteristic of the icon (like I said above about the arrows or media icons) -- but not when the important content is drawn within, which is this case, or when the object itself isn't suitable for adding this kind of thing (the more 3Dish objects like folders, monitors, boxes, ...).
On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 13:00 +0100, Kris Thomsen wrote:
Yeah, I could agree in that. But then we should just make a "rule" that we only use the outline for actions and status icons :) If we want consistensy.
Something like that. The wording needs to be more clear -- not all action and status icons will use the white outline (bookmarks or batteries spring to mind), while some other icons might [partly] use it as well (package manager which contains arrow springs to mind). I believe the "shape defining" argument is closest to what we'd like to go for. I have yet to think how to handle emblems (for some, the outline might help, for other it might be the other way round and we'd like to be consistent there, if possible)...
Anyway... this is hijacking the original thread too much so I'm changing the subject :D
Martin
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