Usability: Icons are confusing
Bug #394065 reported by
Quartz
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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empathy (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
human-icon-theme (Ubuntu) |
New
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: empathy
The "busy" and "away" icons are confusing.
Busy should not be green (green is go, proceed), and should not have a page on top of it (page looks like a message arrived).
Away should not be red and specially not a triangle (red means problem and a red triangle twice as much, in some countries it is standard car equipment for emergency stops). There are other unwanted connotations with red triangles (family planning, the badge used by political prisoners in nazi camps).
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Pleas just use the Icons form pidgin. Emapthy in general is pretty ugly.