One more version.
After reading all of the coments and testing several of the ideas in them, I ended up going for the "Delorean" time gauge.... with a twist....
The air we see...
Today the great Marco Committed air into svn. Let me just tell you a bit about air, air is a direct descendant of the air wallpaper, I made the first sketch of it the same day I made the wallpaper, and it tries to make the people that found the Oxygen theme "to black" happy. There is no one fits all design, and hopefully with air we can make a wider spectrum of people love KDE. ( in the future I think we can still make a couple more themes) Its still we hope coherent, there are a lot of small details that are shared with oxygen both qt theme as plasma theme. That gives it a feeling of belonging as part of the same experience. We introduced a brand new element in plasma theming, a cropped background the is placed on the plasmoid canvas, (you will see this in the future taken to new heights as it opens a fantasist new set of opportunities to designers). Its transparent, people love transparent stuff :) (we did some effort to avoid contrast issues, but with certain wallp
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The whole idea beyond an icon is that it should be immediately clear what it means. That's the idea beyond traffic signs as well.
They are and have to be extremely consistent to be immediately understandable. They don't have complex patterns and/or gradients etc.
Why is it not possible to design icons the same intentions in mind as traffic signs?
Eu gosto dos teus icons porque são visualmente agradáveis mas não tenho a certeza se são práticos.
Btw not all trafic signs are easy to understand.
Hence from that my Nickname ;-)
Who says the backwards americans are always right? And what about ISO Standard?
Year / Month /day is the proper way, you know!
/j
like this (but with vault)
http://www.downpourproductions.com/img/vault/vault_banner.jpg
you could even use a round calender for the numbers in the combination
You should work on the door hinge
um abraço forte
...but I too guess a hourglass one would look even better - besides having no problems with date formats. :-D
Personally, I think using the "clock lock" was a pretty nice idea, but oh well.
a small icon of it will probably suck.
Why don't you try keeping things as simple as possible?
http://blog.qnect.net/wp-content/thevault.jpg
Which better lends itself to having a clock face superimposed.
Ps: sorry my bad english
I'm against a sand clock. I think it will look out of place.
While the numeric date is displayed different across the globe, the way the author layout it (with the titles above) is more than self explanatory IMHO.