[583] in Athena User Interface
Re: Mail icon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher D. Beland)
Fri Jan 5 21:40:35 2001
Message-Id: <200101060240.VAA43511@whack-a-mole.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: aui@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: The events that comprise the history of the universe.
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 21:40:30 -0500
From: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
::slaps self::
Hmm...the icon at /mit/aui/pix/flagspool.png is a derivative of a
crapy exmh icon I picked out one day when I needed a placeholder. I
don't know what the licensing is on exmh components, and we haven't
done usability testing with it. During testing, we were using the
Evolution icon instead, anticipating it would be included in our major
public release. Since that probably won't happen now, we need to find
a replacement...I'm *sure* we could find something better than the
exmh icon (which is glaringly visually inconsistent with the other
icons) even just sitting around in a public domain clip art gallery
somewhere. (The graphic artists at the Publishing Services Bureau are
also at our disposal.)
The recommendations from testing on icons are available at:
http://web.mit.edu/is/usability/aui/icons/auicons.html
I don't think it's linked to the AUI project notebook at the
moment. (Hrm.)
-B.
