Time for fixing :D
Today Björn Balazs published the results from the last survey an the results point out that I should do a new "send mail" icon, the old one was very nice IMO it avoided the use of an arrow, that we end up using in action icons way more that I would like to. But against facts there is no possible argumentation. :)
So I think this might work a bit better.
So, better? worse ??? What do you think?I would like to avoid mailboxes and stuff like that as they scale pretty badly.
# P.S. in the last days I have been working on encrypt document, sign, and lock, type of icons (as you can see in my identi.ca thingy) and probably the icons in Kmail that deal with that issue will be a bit restyled mostly encryption that right now uses the same metaphor that "lock" does and causes some confusion.
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I also think arrow is important and should be easily noticeable.
I totally agree with you that a complete mailbox does not scale good on small icon sizes, but what works really good on small scale is a letter (which merly a rectangle) is just beeing inserted in the slot of the mailbox a little bit diagonal.
On small sizes you will still clearly see a rectangle with a cutoff edge and you will interpretate that as a partly inserted letter.
I got used to the old icon so I knew what it meant, but I think it might have been a bit confusing for some people.
As always great work. KDE would be nowhere near as good without your icons!
There's the usually circular(sometimes with a wave) markup.
There's also the "by plane" markup, etc. Do you see the idea?
Obrigado pelo trabalho, melhorias e esforço continuos.
I would suggest to replace the arrow with a moving envelope. Just make little horizontal lines on the left side of the envelope. Maybe this doesn't fit with the rest of the icon theme.
other ideas:
- a dove;
- a plain;
- an envelope with a trail of semi-transparent envelopes (like it moves)
- same as above, but a car or a plane instead of an envelop;
- a post box (the one, which is used by the general public in order to collect outgoing mail).
+ we have green arrows in oxygen and they are used in a next, previous, up document context, not send receive.
2)To low contrast again the same issue, (#note some monitors (cheaper ones) are really bad wen it comes to shades of gray, playing with the contrast values on your graphical card will improve the experience not only for the icons), the trick is to balance the contrast to the best point not to much not to little.
3)moving envelope, the idea is used in various icon sets, but we avoid it in oxygen for several reasons.
4) radio antenna overlay, radio goes in 2 directions in computers :D.
Thanks for the comments.
However, this icon lacks contrast and is barely readable. From a ~1.5m distance, all I can see is a gray rectangle with a blue dot and a gray something on top. Even from the normal ~0.6m it is not very clear. All those gradients and soft lines may be "cool", but they kill readability. I know you want your icons to be pretty AND usable/recognizable, but I have a feeling that when you have to choose, you choose the pretty before the usable. Or, to put it another way - the Oxygen icons make my eyes hurt a bit after a longer period, because I have to either constantly move closer to the screen or squint. I had no such problems in KDE3 days, the icons were more colorful and sharp, I could recognize them easily.
I really appreciate your work, but I feel it goes in a bit wrong direction sometimes, at least for me.
This icon does not have so good contrast on whiter background, on dark background it works great.
The idea is better than the current one. Even that I liked the stamp, it was not so clear.
Thats exactly what I was searching in this time...
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