Humanity delete icon uses a wrong concept
Bug #452149 reported by
Lionel Dricot
This bug affects 8 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ayatana Design |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Humanity |
Won't Fix
|
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
One Hundred Papercuts |
Confirmed
|
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
humanity-icon-theme (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
Low
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: humanity-icon-theme
Current "delete" icon in humanity is a red crossed circle.
The red crossed circle is a symbol of danger or interdiction. It's never associated with an action and it's confusing.
The "delete" icon should be immediatly seen as an action. In other themes, it's generally a variation about a trash or some destruction metaphor.
One example : in the accounts window of Empathy, you will see this icon next to each account. It looks like there's a problem with this account or that you are forbidden to use this account. If you want to delete an account, you will not think to click on it.
Changed in humanity: | |
assignee: | nobody → mac_v (drkvi-a) |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | Incomplete → In Progress |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in humanity-icon-theme (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
milestone: | none → lucid-round-10 |
assignee: | nobody → mac_v (drkvi-a) |
summary: |
- Humanity delete icon use the wrong concept + Humanity delete icon uses a wrong concept |
Changed in humanity-icon-theme (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | Triaged → Confirmed |
Changed in humanity-icon-theme (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in ayatana-ubuntu: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in ayatana-ubuntu: | |
status: | Invalid → New |
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
status: | Invalid → New |
status: | New → Invalid |
affects: | ayatana-ubuntu → null |
Changed in null: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
no longer affects: | null |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
milestone: | none → precise-2-social-networking |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
milestone: | precise-2-social-networking → quantal-4-social-networking |
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I'm failing to see how this is a bad metaphor.
Google "delete icon" and you'll see at least two icons that look almost the same as ours on the first page.