New icons for gnome-logout dialog

[Øivind Hoel]

On 3/22/06, Who <mailforwho at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 3/22/06, Manu Cornet <lmanul at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi !
> >
> > > On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 08:03 +0000, Matthew East wrote:
> > > > > I make a "fake" screenshot with the new icons.
> > > > > http://developer.berlios.de/dbimage.php?id=2680
> > > > >
> > > > > I would like to hear your opinions.
> >
> > I like the colors, and the right amount of gloss (not too much, not too
> > little). Apart from this, here are the issues I see with these icons :
> >
> > * They all have the same shape. Color is a very nice way to distinguish
> > icons (it was actually the way I made it the first time), but it's
> > usually not enough (especially for color blind people): color + shape
> > allow people to distinguish icons much faster. The icons do look nice,
> > but are really less explicit I think.
> >
> > * Log out has a red color, which implies (with most people's
> > understanding of colors in symbols) that it has a "strong" effect on the
> > system, like shut down. (I would suggest, for example, green for logout,
> > brown for switch, grey or dark blue for lock ?). I think shut down
> > really should be the only fully red icon in here.
> >
> > * Log out has a "power button" icon, which is really misleading I
> > believe (logging out doesn't affect the power state of the computer).
> > The usual door icon represents this action better in my eyes.
>
> I agree with almost all of what Manu said, but the fact that Logout
> looks like a power button is the most disturbing! Logour should be
> more like an arrow leaving a door!


Is it possible to get a text area to update itself when a button is
hovered over in gtk?

I have an idea that I think would absolutely rock the logout dialog,
but I'm not even sure it can be implemented, so I'll try some
ascii-art to show what I'm talking about  (this will look rubbish in a
non-monospace font):

/-------------------------------------------------------\
|			|				|
| [I] Log out		| Click this button if you want	|
| (I) Switch user	| to log out of your session.	|
| (I) Lock screen	| You will be greeted by the	|
|-----------------------| GDM login screen once your	|
| (I) Sleep		| session has ended.		|
| (I) Hibernate		|				|
| (I) Restart		|				|
| (I) Shut down		|				|
|			|				|
\-------------------------------------------------------/

(I) is where the icon should be, and the right area should update with
some informative description telling the user what will actually
happen. Maybe the text accompanying the icon could be removed, though
I'm not so sure about that.