[794] in Athena User Interface
PSB comments on panel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Mon Jun 11 14:16:35 2001
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 14:16:30 -0400
Message-Id: <200106111816.OAA29999@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: aui@mit.edu
CC: jkramer@mit.edu, timblack@mit.edu
[John, if this summation misses anything, you're welcome to add to it.]
In talking with John Kramer of the PSB (who's now working with a real 9.0
machine), he identified a few more things which, while I generally agree
with them as the right thing, are too far down on the priority list to
think about right now. Nonetheless, we should think about them eventually:
- the tasklist icons do not really have anything to do with the launcher
icons; given that the textual tags are different, there should be a
stronger visual association between them
- the miniaturized "Prompt" icon is pretty awful. A "%" could be better.
Most anything that's going to get a shrunk version of the launcher icon
is going to look lame (except for the exit sign), especially with the
text that's part of the icon. If nothing else, nuke and replace with
the empty window icon.
Additionally (and this is something we should fix because it looks really
lame and is probably really easy), the launcher icons should have a
transparent background, so it doesn't get highlighted when in focus. In
particular, the "Mail" icon looks really lame in this state.
