[Tango-artists] grayscale notification area icons.

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

On Jul 24, 2006, at 10:36 PM, Frej Soya Rasmussen wrote:
>
> I was wondering if the notification area icons would be nicer if they
> were limited to grayscale (ala os x).

Agreed -- I think it should be a general principle that the less you  
need to pay attention to an icon while it's open, the duller it should  
be. So for example, panel icons should be almost all grayscale, because  
they're visible almost all the time. Similarly, video player icons  
should be black or dark grey, because most of the time when they're  
visible you're wanting to look at something near them (the video)  
rather than be distracted by the icons themselves.

> Is there any guidelines for notification area icons?
> ...

Only an early draft, making the same suggestion you did. :-)
<http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig_new/desktop- 
notification-area.html#desktop-notification-appearance>

(I'm told the very old KDE guidelines are currently being rewritten,  
but I haven't seen any draft.)

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