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Need more semantic icons #48

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sirbrillig opened this issue Nov 26, 2018 · 3 comments
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Need more semantic icons #48

sirbrillig opened this issue Nov 26, 2018 · 3 comments

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@sirbrillig
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Forked from #43.

I need to create new icons for the various status cases that can be differentiated without color:

  • No notifications ("Normal"; currently all black with no dot)
  • Unseen notifications ("Alert"; currently all orange with no dot)
  • Seen but unread notifications ("Warn"; currently all black with orange dot)
  • Offline ("Offline"; currently all black with red dot)
  • Errors ("Error"; currently all red with no dot)

As discussed on the original issue, we could combine error and offline.

@sirbrillig
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cc @michaeldcain

@michaeldcain
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I think we've already had this discussion in Slack, but it's worth making it public :).

I'd recommend consolidating the list of statuses and using the expanded view to convey some of the details, since removing color will remove the number of possible variations.

What about:

  • "normal/online/no notifs": solid bell
  • "notifications" (seen or unseen message): solid bell with a dot
  • "not working" (whether error or offline): outline of the bell, using the error message inside to differentiate

I think you had a good point about the "notifications" consolidation. Mind re-hashing it here?

@sirbrillig
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Good point, yes. I personally would like to have two different notification icons for unseen and unread because of the following situation:

  1. I get three new notifications. The icon alerts me.
  2. I click on the icon to see the notifications, but none of them is pressing and I decide I'll take a look a them later.
  3. I get a fourth notification.

If unseen and unread states were combined, there'd be no way for me to know that I had just received a new notification in in step 3 above since it would look the same. We could combine unread with the normal state to solve this, but at least for me that would make me forget I had any notifications at all.

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