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[Dylan McCall <dylanmccall@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/19/10, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 19/03/10 02:22, Dylan McCall wrote:
>> This begs the question: Why on Earth was the coloured wants-attention
>> icon dropped? Could indicator-messages differentiate the importance of
>> events and use a different icon accordingly? (For example, coloured
>> icon for actual messages, just lit up for when contacts log in).
>
> The spectrum of attention-grabbiness, if you want to think of it that
> way, is:
>
>  - outline
>  - dimmed
>  - full mono
>  - green
>  - orange
>  - red
>
> We don't flash :-)
>
> The coloured wants-attention messaging icon was nuked at my request
> because it was 3D, and our icons should be flat. I'm expecting a flat
> green version that we can test, soon. Yesterday would have been nice :-)
>
> The real question is one of taste and urgency. How urgent is a message,
> really? If it's something that we never want anyone to miss, we should
> go green. Otherwise, we could use the raise from dim to bright mono.
>

Just to cap off that line of discussion: Thanks for all the
clarification! It helped a lot.

Dylan

(I guess reading the changelog would have answered a portion of that, too :o)