Activity identicons v 1.99 :) (post-akademy)

[Marco Martin]

On Monday 12 July 2010, nuno pinheiro wrote:
> On Monday 12 July 2010 10:35:44 Markus Slopianka wrote:
> > Aren't icons supposed to be meaningful? How do those random patterns
> > represent activities in an iconic way?
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> that was the reason I proposed to make 20 for the most common activities,
> this way we can push for a coherent look on the icons and on the their
> status notification

unfortunately they would have to be always chosen by the user, unless a 
default set is pre created.
unfortunately, i see that having something already done is often enough to 
make people not wanting to use those (like the default subfolders in the home 
dir that some distros do) it triggers an "i don't want to be told what to do" 
behaviour.

some compromise could be done by doing some pattern matching with common names 
an activity could have (i.e the games icon would match with games, fun, maybe 
free time) and automatically chose the icon with the nearest name, would be 
tricky with localization tough

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Marco Martin