Launchpad itself

New status/importance edit icon looks bad

Bug #400997 reported by William Grant
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
Low
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Bug Description

There are at least two problems with the new (devel r8925) status/importance edit icon:

 - It makes the page twitch when it shows or hides, as it sits too low and makes the task row higher when shown. With Karmic's Firefox 3.5, changing it from vertical-align: middle to vertical-align: top makes things much better.
 - It sucks. The dreaded drunken exclamation mark looks bad at the best of times (bug #400925), but it's even worse on a lighter yellow background (like a task matching the current context).

See original description
Graham Binns (gmb)
Changed in malone:
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
milestone: none → 2.2.7
Eleanor Berger (intellectronica)
tags: added: ui
Changed in malone:
milestone: 2.2.7 → 2.2.8
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Gavin Panella (allenap) wrote :

The icon is now shown all the time (in devel), and the icon sucking is recorded in bug 287154, so I'm marking this as Invalid.

Changed in malone:
status: Triaged → Invalid
Christian Reis (kiko)
description: updated
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Eleanor Berger (intellectronica) wrote :

~beuno is working on a nice icon for mouseover. better alignment is definitely worth doing.

Changed in malone:
status: Invalid → Triaged
Martin Albisetti (beuno)
Changed in malone:
status: Triaged → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Martin Albisetti (beuno)
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Martin Albisetti (beuno) wrote :

One way of fixing this could be: http://people.canonical.com/~beuno/400997.html

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 400997] Re: New status/importance edit icon looks bad

2009/8/21 Martin Albisetti <email address hidden>:
> One way of fixing this could be:
> http://people.canonical.com/~beuno/400997.html

It's better. I like the mouseover highlight to indicate it's
clickable, rather than if it's always yellow looking like a state
indicator.

But the icon still looks more like a slash or an exclamation mark
(which I realize is another bug.) I'd like to see that mockup with
perhaps just a 'text document' icon or maybe 'notepad with pencil'.

--
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>

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Jonathan Lange (jml) wrote :

I agree with Martin's comments, except that I think that a pencil is a good icon, and that what needs to change is the way it's drawn.

In one of the wireframes I've seen, a pencil is drawn with a black outline and a white interior. This looks great! The problem with the current pencil icon and the one in beuno's mockup is that the border of the pencil is the colour of the background, which makes it look like a gap, not a border.

Deryck Hodge (deryck)
Changed in malone:
milestone: 2.2.8 → 3.0
Deryck Hodge (deryck)
Changed in malone:
milestone: 3.0 → 3.1.10
tags: added: ui-debt
Martin Albisetti (beuno)
Changed in malone:
assignee: Martin Albisetti (beuno) → Tom Berger (intellectronica)
Deryck Hodge (deryck)
Changed in malone:
milestone: 3.1.10 → 3.1.11
Eleanor Berger (intellectronica)
Changed in malone:
milestone: 3.1.11 → 3.1.12
Deryck Hodge (deryck)
Changed in malone:
milestone: 3.1.12 → none
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in malone:
assignee: Tom Berger (intellectronica) → nobody
status: In Progress → Triaged
Huw Wilkins (huwshimi)
tags: added: icons
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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

There is room for this to be improved for sure. It may be covered by the rebranding work Huw is doing. However, for now, its working and consistent with the general look and feel, so I'm going to downgrade this to low. (Huw, if you are working directly on it, feel free to put back to high :))

Changed in launchpad:
importance: High → Low
Revision history for this message
Curtis Hovey (sinzui) wrote :

The height issue was resolved. The ugly icon is bug 287154 and still needs fixing.

Changed in launchpad:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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