[Tango-artists] Search/Find and Zoom Metaphors

[Andreas Nilsson]

Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 13:46 -0400, Steven Garrity wrote:
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>>Evandro Fernandes Giovanini wrote:
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>>>I could be wrong but I think I read somewhere that Windows Vista is
>>>using an icon almost identical to the OS X one. If that's the case then
>>>IMHO it's best to leave the Tango metaphor as it is. :)
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>>Looks like you're right about Windows Vista (see top right in this 
>>screenshot): 
>>http://bink.nu/photos/news_article_images/images/9994/original.aspx
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>I am not sure if vista does this intentionally, but one kind-of-lame way
>to differentiate those would be to use a left-handed icon for search and
>right-handed ones for zoom. It would still be the same metaphor, but
>could it be different enough to let us use the same basic metaphor for
>two things? It would at least let one tell those apart with quick
>glance.
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Sounds like a nice idea to me.
The magnifying-glass is still used in stuff like document-print-preview, 
but what about a pair of glasses in that icon (as Lapo suggested in #tango)?
Like "Let me put on my reading glasses, so I can take a closer look at 
what you have written."
- Andreas