[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #9419: Some icon meanings may not scale internationally
- From: "pulkomandy" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 12:53:58 -0000
#9419: Some icon meanings may not scale internationally
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Reporter: mks | Owner: stippi
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: low | Milestone: R1
Component: User Interface | Version: R1/alpha4.1
Resolution: | Keywords: icon, HVIF
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by pulkomandy):
If there is an actual problem of bad conotation of some icons in Haiku,
the solutions is not to replace them with something more universal, for
several reasons :
* There's no way to do something truly universal,
* The icons are all slightly off-beat (what would be the proper english
word for that ?), which is part of the fun working with Haiku.
Given that bootman is not even visible on deskbar, I don't care much about
this particular one.
Anyway, a possible solution would be to have localized icons in order to
not hurt anyone. But I'm not sure we should be going that way, because it
opens possibilities of more bikeshedding, makes each localized version of
Haiku possibly different from others (what if the yellow used for active
tabs looks agressive in some cultures ? should we make a greyscale version
of Haiku for them ?) and can get us quite far.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/9419#comment:16>
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