[658] in Athena User Interface
Re: CANCEL Sanity Check icons meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deborah A. Levinson)
Fri Jan 26 10:16:03 2001
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 10:15:43 -0500
To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@mit.edu>, Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
From: "Deborah A. Levinson" <debby@MIT.EDU>
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At 5:56 AM -0500 1/26/01, Christopher D. Beland wrote:
> > 2. The team needs to decide if further work by PSB is desired.
> > Greg identified the candidate icons. Some closure is needed there.
>
>We did this at the AUI meeting on 1/17, no? (Did anyone happen to
>take minutes?)
>
> > 3. I raised the notion of having John Kramer validate our color
> > choices. I recommend that!
We did in fact do this at the AUI meeting. Here's how it played out:
- Gnome foot: Keep same icon. Label should read "Menu."
- Mail: Pencil/paper icons confused people. A mailbox icon would be a
good starting point. (Tim may come up with equally good non-mailbox
options.) Label should read "Mail."
- Netscape: Use the 2D Netscape icon. Label should read "Netscape."
- Xterm: Try incorporating "athena%" in one of the window icons.
Window icon should display a complete window, not just a corner.
Label should read "Command prompt" or just "prompt," depending on
space available.
- Text editor: No team requirements for icon look and feel. Label
should read "Emacs."
- Logout: Use the exit sign icon. Label should read "Logout."
I have supplied the PSB with a screenshot of a window with the likely
Sawfish theme, as well as a list of fonts available on Athena
(thanks, Greg!) and also Oliver's mockups of an Xterm icon. March 1
was the deadline mentioned for final delivery of icons.
I agree that having John or Tim at the PSB validate color choices is
a good idea. I do want to stress, however, that keeping to a defined
list of deliverables with the PSB is crucial. They are extremely
short-staffed right now, and simply do not have the time or resources
to devote to this project that they did last summer. They are still
both interested in and committed to this project, even if it means
working with outside production people to refine sketches Tim does
himself. Nevertheless, in order to budget their time appropriately,
they must know sooner rather than later if there are going to be any
scope changes to what was decided on 1/17.
--debby
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Humanity has an amazing inability to plan. Not too many
generations ago, when our relatives lived by hunting and
gathering, the inability to plan for the next season meant
death. Planners survived. The clueless died. But today,
Homo Sapiens eats at McDonalds - for the moment, planning
and survival are not strongly linked. --David Isenberg
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