RFC: replace the current Contour Icon in the upper corner through a proper icon

Mario Fux kde-ml at unormal.org
Sun Oct 30 10:28:45 UTC 2011


Am Donnerstag 27 Oktober 2011, 22.36:18 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:
> On Thursday, October 27, 2011 21:17:08 Anton Kreuzkamp wrote:
> > I must say, an activity-related icon would mean to me "Go to my
> > Activity". But that's wrong.
> 
> conceptually there is no difference between "the current activity" and the
> activity view. they are for all intents and purposes synonymous. trying to
> draw a difference is to get lost in technical details that are probably
> unceptualizable through normal usage.
> 
> > So, what the icon has to say is "Go to my Activity's
> > Homescreen" and the best icon for it is imho the house-icon.
> 
> personally i'm fine wih a "home" icon, though it's a rather overloaded
> metaphore by now.

[snip]

What about an eye symbol. IIRC it's not yet used somewhere in PA, it's simple, 
recognizable and the current activities' homescreen is something like an 
over_view_ or like a _view_?

Just my 2 Rappen
Mario


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