[582] in Athena User Interface
Re: Mail icon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Jan 5 21:22:57 2001
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 21:22:53 -0500
Message-Id: <200101060222.VAA25371@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
CC: aui@mit.edu
In-reply-to: <200101041514.KAA22757@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
> * The icon background isn't quite the same color as the panel
> background. (Aren't icons supposed to be semitransparent?)
> * The icon is a GIF; it should be a PNG. This should be
> trivial to fix.
After much fighting with the gimp, I created a PNG with a transparent
background and put it in /mit/aui/pix/flagspool.png, addressing these
two issues. The following issues remain:
> * A great deal of the icon's visual amplitude is taken up by
> the word "MAIL", which is redundant when the launcher name
> is right below the icon. (Did we try the icon with and
> without the "MAIL" in usability testing?)
> * The icon is rather busy, what with the mailbox, the
> envelope, the word "MAIL", and the green... I guess that's
> scrub brush near the mail box post.
> * The icon is displayed at 39x37, but it is a 48x48 GIF. As a
> result, the icon comes out looking like a child's drawing.
> This is a 1024x768 display with 24-bit color.
