Working set designation - icon or letter - please, vote!!!

[Ivan Shapovalov]

On Tuesday 24 December 2013 at 18:57:19, Leon wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 December 2013 11:35:48 Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> > On 2013-12-24 09:52, Leon Pollak wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 24 December 2013 15:43:36 Sven Brauch wrote:
> > >> Question is, though, do people even want this? If there's a
> > >> consensus
> > >> letters are better than the current icons I'm not opposed to
> > >> writing
> > >> it, but if half the people are against it and half are for it I'm
> > >> not
> > >> going to change the current thing
> > > 
> > > List members are kindly asked to vote for one of two following
> > > options to designate working sets:
> > > 
> > > 1. By arbitrary generated icon in the style more or less it is done
> > > today.
> > > 2. By sequentially assigned letter with an option to reassign
> > > manually.
> > 
> > TBH, I think letters would be... less aesthetically desirable (at
> > least to me personally). And so am going to go with (1) ;-).
> > 
> > Whether or not they're *effective*, from an *aesthetic* standpoint I
> > actually quite like the new icons. The aesthetics are non-arbitrary
> > and they integrate very well with the new splash screen.
> 
> The*aesthetic* part may be solved by putting the letter on some
> background like colored rectangular or circle, for example.
> Even the existing icon may be used, probably...:-)
> 
> I think, the voting should be based firstly on functional motives, as
> the aesthetic ones are solvable after functional are decided...:-)
> 
> IMHO.

Well, convincing/discussion period should be decoupled from voting period. :)

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Ivan Shapovalov / intelfx /