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Re: [TSVN] Icons for Lock/Unlock menu items

From: Simon Large <slarge_at_slarge.plus.com>
Date: 2005-05-23 10:44:50 CEST

Lübbe Onken wrote:
> Simon Large schrieb:
>
>> I quite like Mark's grey tick for Locked, as it looks like a
>> greyed-out InSubversion icon, although I can't help feeling that
>> might be more appropriate to ReadOnly. To me, greyed out suggests
>> disabled, which is the ReadOnly state. The Locked state is one that
>> may require your attention, so should be a bit more prominent.
>>
>>
> Now that's a pretty smart idea :-)
> I thought that the "stop" sign I designed for readonly would be a good
> indication for people to acquire the lock.

It is a good indication, but as I mentioned in a later email, if all
files in a folder have that overlay then it just makes the other
overlays (modified, conflicted) more difficult to see because they don't
stand out.

> I can sketch a grayed InSubversion overlay for the XPStyle icon sets
> an I think it'll look really good. but I want to raise a question
> first:
> A grayed tick may look the same as the normal green tick for colour
> blind people. Don't you think that a distinctive shape and colour
> (octagon, horizontal bar) is the better solution?

Yes it might. Octagon is no good because it looks exactly like a circle
except with huge icons, and not many developers use those. The other
possibility is the symbol which windows uses to mean 'you can't drag
that file to here', like when you try to drag C drive onto D drive in
explorer. In Win2K you get a black circle with a diagonal line through
it. If you have low vision it might look a bit like a circle with a
tick, but you could slope the line the other way (is that a tock?).

> Never mind. I'll create a grayed tick mark and we wait for feedback.
> People can always use other icon sets or icons from other sets
> instead. My favourite is the "Straight" set. I haven't used anything
> else, since I designed it. I think I'll put a poll for the favourite
> icon set on our web page ;-)

I like 'straight' as well, but I miss the tick mark in the green circle.
At one point you were going to add another set that is a hybrid between
straight and XP-style, ie. the straight shapes and colours, but with a
tick in InSubversion, an exclamation mark in Conflicted and either a
star or an exclamation mark in Modified.

We don't have long for feedback, though. SVN 1.2 should be released
today and I'm sure Stefan won't want to hang around for long after that
;-) We need to get something in all the icon sets (some of them still
have 2 padlocks), and update the .png versions for the manual images.

I will be glad to get 1.2 out - there have been almost 950 repository
revisions and loads of great new features since 1.1.3 which was the last
non-bugfix release.

Simon

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