lucky13
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Posted: April 13 2008,13:42 |
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mikshaw: | Quote | Personally I don't see "database" when I look at these icons....I see an oil drum. But apparently this disk stack concept has somehow come to represent database. Does that mean this representation is accurate?
In my eyes it is one of the biggest problems with an icon-centric desktop. Only after the user learns to associate a given image with a given concept does that image serve a useful purpose, and some concepts are much easier to associate with an image than others.
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Concur on the point that a MyDSL icon is probably better than stacked disk icons. Two icons might work, one for the app (MyDSL db Browser) and one for database MIME-type association. The latter is probably easier because it could use an existing icon and edit in SQL/SQLite (or just "db") in place of whatever is on a stock icon -- and then it would stay relatively small in size. The former is still a puzzle unless it's specific to MyDSL. I thought of something like a penguin with a waiter's tray but I would associate that more with some other server application. Plus that would be a bloated icon since it would have too many lines and colors.
jaapz: | Quote | | And i'll try too make some nice icons, starting with the console icon |
Please remember the preference is smaller. The more lines and the more colors, the bigger it will be.:)
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