Policy icons that aren't just... you know... coloured circles

[itowlson]

Coloured circles is all I got.

[flynnduism]

Will do @itowlson!

Looking at OPA's design collateral, they don't really have any icons to represent the different types/states... From their site and docs, they use a normal kubernetes icon for denoting a kubernetes-centrkc policy as far as I can tell. From this repo am I correct in thinking that the different icons needed are as follows:

type
 - policy (.rego)
 - data (not .rego)
state
 - ok
 - error
 - unknown 

Simple OPA logo icons

First approach is only showing an OPA state, based off the logo.

Policy Type icons

To show the policy type as well, it gets a bit more abstract. I've used a shield to denote whether it is a .rego policy or not:

or:

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Do these fit what you're seeking?

[flynnduism]

@itowlson do you have a preferred direction from the above icon styles?

I will cut these up and add them to the extension accordingly.

[itowlson]

Oops sorry I missed that you had already done this! That's the last time I take a holiday sigh...

You are correct about the states being okay / error / unknown. Emma from the Gatekeeper team suggested that we should distinguish these with shape not just colour for accessibility, and I don't think the current proposals will meet that excellent recommendation on their own. She suggested a tick or cross to indicate status, but very much open to ideas.

The other axis however is not policy-vs-not-policy but the slightly subtle one of whether the policy is 'managed' by the VS Code extension. That is, was the policy deployed into OPA using the VS Code extension, or was it deployed manually by some other means. This affects whether we treat it as 'part of the current dev workflow' and therefore whether we confirm on update or delete or whether the policy participates in workspace sync. Again, not sure how to represent this, but one idea could be to overlay a small VS Code lazy-8 icon on the 'managed' ones...?

Hope that makes sense!

I like the OPA helmet icons but am not sure how they will look at tree icon size. The simpler, bolder shape of the shield outline may work better, or the helmet could also be good in outline or otherwise simplified... thoughts?