Lapo Calamandrei wrote: > That's exactly the problem for sync icons, there isn't anything > obvious for them. Anyway I'm not that sure that a pair of arrows is > the way to go. Bouncing back to jimmac :-) > Ran into this again because of my work on the Thunderbird activity manager [1], [2]. I'm leaning more and more towards that the most recognized metaphor for sync is a round plate with arrows pointing to each others ends. This is what both Vista [3] and OS X [4] use and I'm pretty sure it's used quite a lot on a bunch of mobile platforms as well. It might suck, but then again, we don't have anything better, and it would be a pity to wait two more years for a better metaphor to come around. This is pretty much my approach to the presence icons in g-i-t as well.
1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476695 2. https://bug476695.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=373837 3. http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/images/Vista/vista_sync_center.jpg 4. http://homepage.mac.com/simx/.Pictures/dot-mac-sync-details.png - Andreas _______________________________________________ Tango-artists mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/tango-artists
