Icons in the files web UI are not intuitive

Bug #771718 reported by Michał Karnicki
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu One Servers
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

The folder, shared folders, file and published file icons are fine. Their appearance says more or less what they are.

However, the synced folder (UDF), shared with me folder (and same with write access) are plain strange. These are "locked database icon", "database icon", "writable database icon" or something of that sort.

I used the same icons in the Android app and received feedback from the Design "I see a strage icon with some emblem on it, I don't know what that really means". I would suggest we use folder and folder with pencil icons for "shared with me", and folder (mabye with arrow or two way arrows) icon for synced folders. We could also just change the colors of fodler icons accordinly.

Yellow - Ubuntu One and regular folders
Green - Synced folders
Blue - Shared with me
Blue with pencil or with plus - Shared with me, writable
<folder> with radio emblem - Share (by me)

I never felt these 'database-like' icons were suitable and resonably picked.

Tags: frontend webui
Michał Karnicki (karni)
visibility: private → public
tags: added: webui
Martin Albisetti (beuno)
Changed in ubuntuone-servers:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu One web team (ubuntuone-web)
tags: added: frontend
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in ubuntuone-servers:
assignee: Registry Administrators (registry) → nobody
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