[Bug 164037] provide consistent and distinct icon for "leave"

Maciej Pilichowski bluedzins at wp.pl
Tue Jun 24 12:03:07 CEST 2008


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------- Additional Comments From bluedzins wp pl  2008-06-24 12:03 -------
ad.#29) Finex, this is separate issue, because those icons look like hardcoded no matter what you choose, opening report for it

ad.#26)

KDE4 Target Users 
"
Berna (...) is very unsure when it comes to technology. Berna is a very precise person, and (...) twice lost several hours of work because she didn't understand the options she was offered.
"

And this is not surprise (and not her fault), because all Berna sees is ambiguous icon (lock/logout plasmoid). This icon could mean shutdown, or it can mean leave (or in reality it could even mean something else, because Berna cannot assume system is totally bug-free).

UI principles were not make up yesterday and those are effects of years of observations human-machine interaction. Aaron, I understand what you said that you made decision to deliberately violate them. 

The cost is clear, what are the benefits?

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[ sub-wish, maybe at least let's double system-shutdown icon to system-shutdown and system-leave, change the code to use system-leave for leave, visually it won't change a thing, but for Berna-admins :-) it would require only to change some icons without messing with code ? ]


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