[A little OT] Oxygen icons survey

[Matthew Woehlke]

Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Monday 23 April 2007, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
>> 'undo' / 'redo' ones aren't very convenient either. Call me an OS/X
>> junkie, but I think Apple's principle of leaving undo/redo in the
>> Edit menu is a good thing. This is really the kind of action for
> 
> regardless of where they are (and yes, i don't think they need to be in the 
> toolbar either) they still need icons, both because of being in menus but 
> also because these semantics may be used elsewhere by certain applications in 
> contextually appropriate ways that beg for icons as well.

If they aren't in the toolbar, I have to open the menu to see when I 
have run out of undo/redo steps. That's not very helpful. :-)

(I actually use the buttons often... of course I use the shortcuts as 
well, but...)

Being able to leave comments would have been nice, for instance in the 
'lock/logoff/poweroff' icon trio, only the 'poweroff' one was remotely 
intuitive IMO, for the others I felt like I was really grasping at 
straws for which one to pick. The file type icons were also pretty 
un-helpful.

-- 
Matthew
 > A: Yes.
 >> Q: Are you sure?
 >>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
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