Activity identicons v 1.99 :) (post-akademy)

[nuno pinheiro]

On Monday 12 July 2010 12:16:04 Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > me realy does not care much as long as we have something that looks
> > pretty and is easy to recognize by the user, i proposed to do those
> > icons because wen I saw how our Chani chose random icons to represent
> > them, i had my typical "your icons look soo ugly used like that"
> > feeling...  so I proposed
> > 
> > 
> > , what if i do a batch of consistent icons that a user can choose form
> > that don't look terribly wrong together?
> 
> Well, you already promised to do that :)

I was explaining how it went :D

> > thumbnails can work just as well its a
> 
> Thumbnails are not a real option because of technical difficulties and
> (un)usefulness.
> 1. See prev mail
> 2. Even if we add windows into thumbs (and not only plasma's look) -
> compare a thumbnail of kmail to a thumb of akregator (and a lot of
> other programs). There is no significant difference (thumbs need to be
> rather small). And, the thumbs would be constantly changing which is
> *bad*.
> 3. What when there are more screens?
yeah

-- 
oxygen guy, "I make the pretty pictures"