[539] in Athena User Interface
Results of icon testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Tue Dec 19 14:01:07 2000
Message-Id: <200012191901.OAA25672@n42-202-1.mit.edu>
To: aui@MIT.EDU, eli@eazel.com, arlo@eazel.com
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 14:01:01 -0500
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
See http://web.mit.edu/is/usability/aui/icons/auicons.html for the
results of some tests with icons for panel launchers, including
Nautilus and Evolution (which were poorly recognizable).
From what I'm hearing, it sounds like the panel should include the
following (until better icons are created, as needed):
Icon: Gnome foot with upward-pointing arrow
Label: Menu
Pop-up label: (none)
Starts: Gnome menu system
Icon: Netscape 2D black and blue icon
Label: WWW
Pop-up label: Netscape
Starts: netscape
Icon: Evolution letter and pencil and envelope icon
Label: E-mail
Pop-up label: Evoluton personal information manager
Starts: evolution
Icon: Perspective xterm icon
Label: Prompt
Pop-up label: athena% prompt ("command line")
Starts: gnome-terminal
Icon: Nautilus shell with "Eazel" text inside
Label: File Mgr.
Pop-up label: Navigate the Unix file system, copy, delete, files etc.
Starts: nautilus
(Tasklist)
(Clock)
Icon: EXIT sign
Label: Log Out
Pop-up label: (none)
Starts: Logout sequence
Mind you, Nautilus is only installed on a few machines, and might not
make it into the upcomg release. I'm going to start playing with
Evolution real soon now. 8)
-B.
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Christopher Beland - http://web.mit.edu/beland/www/contact.html
MIT STS/Course 6 (EECS) - MIT Athena User Interface Project
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