[A little OT] Oxygen icons survey

[Stephen Leaf]

On Monday 23 April 2007 18:21:06 Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> 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.
I couldn't agree more. I guessed at lock and log off.
The file type icons where so small that I had to look hard to distinguish 
which was a document and spreadsheet. Other than that I could figure them out 
quite well.
I did notice in 2 questions there were 2 or more icons that could be the exact 
same thing. Burning a CD (2 to choose from) and the Back button (3 to choose 
from). In these cases it felt like they were trying for a popularity contest 
to see which people liked better.

-- 
Stephen Leaf