On Thursday 16 April 2009 20:19, Ben Klein wrote:
2009/4/17 Scott Ritchie scott@open-vote.org:
A user submitted a bug report to launchpad complaining that the Wine icon is not Tango compliant: [...]
In short, it means the Wine icon looks very out of place [...]
In short, it's ugly, but our real goal here is usability. [...]
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Consistency != Usability
Sure, it might look out-of-place, but Windows applications are somewhat out-of-place on Linux. It's very ugliness probably makes it easier to find. If the default icon is changed, current users will have more trouble finding it again.
Seems like a lot of fuss over a few trivial details:
- The Wine system icon is ugly (I'm all in favour of changing it, but
you make a BIG fuss over it) 2) If the icon is changed, it should be done in time for Ubuntu 9.10. (I have BIG issue with this. Wine is not exclusive to Ubuntu [...]
Not sure about this. If someone is planning a major release, it's nice to get little things in place for it, especially a "branding" item like this.
- The glass is the wrong shape. Is it really THAT important? If
anything it makes Wine distinguishable from the beverage. Do we get any outraged wine enthusiasts posting on wine-users or the forum telling us that we use the wrong glass in our logos?
Agreed.